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...Widespread spraying for mosquitoes is like trying to kill an ant with an AK-47," said one resident who spoke about the possible dangers of Resmethrin, the chemical used for the spraying...
Douglas R. Hofstadter wrote an essay about ants as a metaphor for how the brain works. Each individual neuron, or ant, has no understanding why it does what it does. It just fires every so often, or searches for food when it is hungry. But looking at this level makes it impossible to see the complexity at the higher level. Ant colonies move, grow and make decisions unfathomable to the individual ant much as our minds have a consciousness way beyond the power or influence of any one neuron. Our society is similar; much happens at a higher level that...
...solution is not to cancel all car pools and revert to the long, lazy days of my childhood--which, now that I think of it, consisted of my whining about being bored, then sprinkling sugar across the front stoop to create an ant farm--and then begging my mother to let me out of my room while promising never to unleash another insect plague...
Less atavistic but in its way more chilling is Dutch export Big Brother (making its debut July 6, 8 p.m. E.T.), which turns its participants into an ant farm. Stuck in an 1,800-sq.-ft. house with cameras everywhere (yes, including the bathroom), they'll be on TV five nights a week--and on the Internet 24/7. They'll also be whittled off, by an audience vote, one at a time until a winner claims...
...work had to be beaten into a mostly balky peasantry in Europe, even while such dedication flourished under Confucianism. Today the work ethic in China puts the U.S. to shame. Imagine what will happen when technology and innovation join with what some U.S. experts in the 1960s contemptuously called "ant labor" in China...