Daily Archives: January 8th, 2009

Colbert, bees, and cows

I was just thinking “Gosh, we’ve been seriously lately at the Bug Blog….”
Fortunately, Steven Colbert weighs in on the bee-cocaine experiments! (At 2:12)
Bonus: before he gets to the honey, he explains how cow-tipping will help the environment.
Sadly, I can’t embed the Colbert video at WordPress, but you can click and visit.
He also covers the escape [...]

Ethics of copying unpublished data

You might remember that some time ago I expressed some concern about whether or not I should report on the papers given at the Entomological Society Annual Meeting.  The other ESA (Ecological Society of America) just published a paper on that very topic!
Patrick C. Tobin, James L. Frazier (2009) A Slide Down a Slippery Slope: [...]