On light fixtures that look like breasts

Though this is a “family” website, it is also a subversive family website. In that spirit, I’ll continue. This post was triggered by a family vacation. My family stayed in a cabin at a Missouri state park. We had a great time.   I know that the word “cabin” conjures up thoughts and images…

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Entomopathogenic fungi: a gift from God the sadist?

Is it beautiful to see spores sneak into an ant's trachea, then creep into the ant's brain where they take over, driving the ant to insanity, causing the ant to crawl to the top of a blade of grass, where the fungi destroys the remainder of the ant's brain, then sprouts fruiting bodies…

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