Excavation of an ant colony
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Excavation of an ant colony
Sort by Boing Boing (Free subscription) - 12/12/2008
Jennifer Lum points us to this fascinating segment from the TV documentary "Ants! Nature's Secret Power." Jen says, "Scientists poured cement into an ant colony structure and then excavated it (I imagine the ants died). It revealed an amazing network of fungus gardens and tunnels and garbage pits."...
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Ant architecture
Sort by kottke (Free subscription) - 11/18/2008
It's worth sitting through the annoying "in a world..." narration to see the structure of an immense colony of ants . The scientists poured 10 tons of concrete down into an abandoned ant colony, waited for it to harden, and then spent weeks excavating the results. During the construction of the giant structure, it's estimated that the ants hauled 40 tons of dirt out of the holes, the equivalent of...
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An Underground Metropolis
Sort by Neatorama (Free subscription) - 11/26/2008
[YouTube - Link] From an episode of “Ants! Nature’s Secret Power” we see the amazing underground metropolis built by the industrious insects. To see how large and complex the living city of the ants are the scientists poured cement so as to solidify the structure and allow them the chance to dig it up. [...]
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Holy Crap! Billions of ants in one colony
Sort by The Inquisitr (Free subscription) - 01/05/2009
One of the largest ant colonies ever discovered to date stretches over 4,000 miles across Europe and is estimated to number in the billions of ants. The colony shown in the video below; and the picture above, is approximately 500 square feet in size and goes 25 feet into the ground. In order to be [...]
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Watch the Google anthill move toward social and real time
Sort by Scobleizer (Free subscription) - 05/25/2009
This week is a key moment in Google’s life. It is being challenged by a change in the ecosystem. We’ve seen this happen with other companies before. Remember Microsoft in 1994-1996? It responded to the changes in how we exchange information by turning the company hard toward the Internet. Too hard, actually. Bill Gates steered [...]
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Inside a Giant Ant Colony
Sort by The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) - 11/20/2008
Today’s crazy science video: a Science Channel documentary in which scientists pour 10 tons of cement down a massive anthill, let it harden for a month, then carefully excavate it to demonstrate the internal structure of the colony. It took three days of pumping to fill the colony with cement. The sad thing about [...]
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Ants' Metropolis
Sort by Dark Roasted Blend (Free subscription) - 11/20/2008
Link Scroll down for today's pictures & links. Ants' Metropolis You have to see it to believe it - what scientist uncovered when they filled ant's tunnels with cement... The structure that simply boggles the mind. (this is an episode from "Ants! Nature's Secret Power" - info ) url As a bonus link, check out this video of ants digging tunnels (900x real speed) - Click here Today's pictures & links:...
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Ants, Traffic and the Lack of Individuality
Sort by NoahBrier.com (Free subscription) - 03/06/2009
Is there really such a thing as an individual ant? A month or so ago some fellow Barbarians and myself were having a conversation about bees. We all got to realizing that you hardly ever hear about predators to bees, which eventually led the conversation to animals that pretty much only exist in colonies. (For the record, a quick Wikipedia search of course turned up bears as a bee predator. You'd...
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Amazing Giant Ant Colony
Sort by Cynical-C Blog (Free subscription) - 11/17/2008
Around 3 minutes in they pump concrete into the abandoned ant holes and excavate it a month later to get a visual on what it looked like. The results are amazing. (via 3QuarksDaily)
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Grasscutter Architects
Sort by Next Nature (Free subscription) - 12/13/2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQERRbU23bU&rel=0 Ten tons of cement were pourred into this grasscutters ant colony, revealing a subterranean structure of 8 meters / 26 feet deep. ‘Ant-City’ was built including circulating ventilation shafts and funghi gardens interconnected through pipelines. Assuming that this is the work of a collective mind – would be logical. But then; imagine how would advanced...
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Around the .TV/WEBS
Sort by Hee-Haw Marketing (Free subscription) - 01/27/2009
The Beauty of Street PhotographySome fantastic street photos from Smashing Magazine. Toddlers & TVFurther limiting the appeal of having children, now we find out that educational DVDs actually make the dumber? Damnit. 40 Brands on TwitterIt's all been said.The Cheapest...
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Ant Nest Metropolis
Sort by Technoccult (Free subscription) - 01/31/2009
As part of the documentary Ants! Nature’s Secret Power, cement was poured into an ant colony, allowed to harden, and then excavated to reveal an amazing metropolis: Design by Superorganism Check out the end of the video for to reveal an ant project equivalent to the Great Wall of China. Could this be a model for producing [...]
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Indulging my fascination with ants
Sort by appletree (Free subscription) - 11/15/2008
Ever since I was about 6, I’ve been fascinated with ants. By the time I was 8, I was imparting all sorts of ant-related knowledge to my friends (”Those small ones aren’t ‘baby ants’. Baby ants pupate like butterflys. And they don’t have lungs. And their skeletons are on the outside. And all those ants [...]
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Amazing Ant Architecture
Sort by Graham Glass, etc. (Free subscription) - 11/18/2008
A colony of Ants exhibits most, if not all, the characteristics of a Mind. Each ant performs a fairly simple duty, but they coordinate in creative ways to accomplish higher-level tasks. The following video illustrates the kind of architecture that...
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Lex TV 155
Sort by lex icon (Free subscription) - 02/06/2008
Here are another dozen interesting or amusing videos: Lewis Black on the Old Testament. Robosoldier is finally here. That crazy Tom Cruise scientology interview that everyone is talking about. The Civil War in four minutes. It can be funny to...