ICYMI: Holiday Break Edition
Happy New Year! Classes are back in swing today here at NC State and we’re slowly but surely digging ourselves out from under the pile [...]
Ants vs. Rats in NYC
Last year I got to take my first trip to New York City and spent most of my time in the medians of Broadway setting [...]
The Most Important Map You Will Ever See
and other stories of the biogeography of pathogens Among the greatest of the unwinnable debates among academics is the place of humans in nature. It [...]
Good News: We’ve all got mites!
Over the last year and a half, hundreds of you volunteered to have your faces scraped for science. In looking at the contents of your [...]
The True and Deadly Story Behind My National Geographic Article on the Gulf of St. Lawrence
Four years ago I went to the Gulf of St. Lawrence to write the story of a place, a giant body of water in which [...]
Quiz Time!
Everyone loves a good quiz – even the Buzzfeed variety, you know the kind that you see on Facebook ALL. THE. TIME. The kind of [...]
Lewis Thomas and the Ants of New York City
Lewis Thomas was a doctor who wrote articles so beautiful everyone forgot he was anything but a writer. Joyce Carol Oates used Thomas’s writing in [...]
He is a wise man who invented beer
It has been a fun set of weeks in the lab. Two weeks ago I discovered ants from our lab had made their way to [...]
Celebrate World Soil Day
In celebration of World Soil Day (December 5, 2013), we give you a round-up of Your Wild Life posts that in some way extol the [...]
Science + Art = SciArt!
Dr. Eleanor and friends have a fun new blog called Buzz Hoot Roar. In each post, they explain a scientific concept that interests or excites [...]
Making the Invisible Visible
If you haven’t visited our Invisible Life project in the last few weeks, go pop on over today and check it out! We’ve added a [...]
Reading Roundup: Labor Day Leisure Edition
Since we’re on the cusp of a three-day holiday weekend, we figured you might be searching for something fun to do with all your extra [...]
Countdown to Indoor Evolution Meeting
We’re getting REALLY excited about the upcoming meeting on the Evolution of the Indoor Biome. Thirty scholars representing many disciplines -- from art and anthropology [...]
Reading Round-Up: Cicada Edition!
It’s been quite awhile since we shared links on a related theme with y’all and since we’re in the midst of some self-induced [...]
Invisible names
Maybe it has something to do with the excessive amounts of matching and memory games I played as a tot. Or why flash cards have [...]