Fire-fighting bugs!

Ok, this is pretty cool.
“Scientists in Germany are hard at work on an autonomous, pill-bug-like robot to be used to fight forest fires. It’s got legs like the little insect, and if the going gets too hot, it can retract them into its body. They’ll then be protected by the ceramic casing, which can withstand [...]

An experiment with spam and tomatoes

I’m going to switch my feeds over to summaries for the next week, just to see if that makes a difference in the amount of spamming and content skimming I get. An awful lot of WordPress blogs have been scraped recently, including mine, and this was suggested as a solution.
We shall see. Let me [...]

When Parasitic wasps attack…

Carl Zimmer at the Loom has a new article out in the NYTimes about parasitic wasps!
Don’t miss the way cool life cycle diagram.