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What started out as a playfully strange scenario turns positively effed-up when, in his final moments of life as an arthropod, Cee-lo reflects back on a catalogue of memories he’s imagined for their pair: bug and blonde riding a bike. Bug and blonde having a picnic.. Bug and blonde having raunchy sex in every position known to both species...

Author: By Nayeli E. Rodriguez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: PopScreen: Gnarls Barkley, "Gone Daddy Gone" | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

Picture a toddler playing with Legos or Tinker Toys. Without any instruction, she tries putting them together. Finally, after a lot of trial and error, she assembles a little machine that actually does something. Much to her delight, it chugs along the floor like some fanciful arthropod out of A Bug's Life. As the precocious builder's parent, you would be proud--especially if you were told that what she did on her own has long eluded the world's most powerful computers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Robot Out of Cyberspace | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...anthropological work. Some deal with romance and male-female relationships, such as "Am I Pretty?" an arrangement of seven stag beetles on pebble-wall. One beetle holds a yellow star-shape bead meant to represent a crown. The human cult the beauty pageant is played out by Norfleet's arthropod actors...

Author: By Hanna R. Shell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Life And Times of a Fabled Polymath: Anthropologist of Life | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...fever, convulsions and, in some cases, death−can be caused by any of a large variety of viruses or bacteria or can follow a wide range of other illnesses. But the bugs responsible for the current outbreak of encephalitis are unique. They are "arboviruses," a contraction for arthropod-borne viruses. The arthropod that carries the virus is, in this case, an insect with jointed feet−the common mosquito−that has been particularly numerous and active in large areas of the U.S. this year. Mosquitoes pick up the arboviruses when they bite birds, which usually carry the viruses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The St. Louis Type | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

...telescoped designation for arthropod-borne viruses-those transmitted by mosquitoes and other insects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Killer from Lassa | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

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