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This Month in Books: ‘I Don’t Want To Become a Giant Insect!’

by Dana Snitzky September 18, 2019January 27, 2023

This month’s books newsletter is a bodily affair.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Science & Nature, Story

Why Bugs Deserve Our Respect

by Jessica Gross July 2, 2019October 19, 2022

Fruit flies helped us win six Nobel prizes in medicine. Architects have been inspired by termite hills. Ecologist Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson explains why bugs are so essential to the world we live in.

Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature

Preserving Human Life Requires Preserving Insect Life

by Aaron Gilbreath November 29, 2018October 19, 2022

While science labors to comprehend the variety and volume of insects on earth, both are declining with disturbing speed, and the ecological consequences are troubling.

Wasp on a Windshield
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature

Sometimes You’re the Bug. Far Fewer Times, of Late.

by Pam Mandel May 12, 2017October 19, 2022

Spending less time cleaning your windshield? A group of researchers in Germany is trying to find out why.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature

How Tiny, Yet Über-Efficient Spider Brains Can Improve Computer Technology

by Krista Stevens March 30, 2017October 19, 2022

Big brains offer no advantage in the animal kingdom.

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