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...We’ve been dismayed lately. We’re seeing so many of our fellow seniors at Harvard literally losing their minds about jobs, consulting, investment banking, saving the world. Last week, our friend bought a Venus flytrap and cut off its head. Just to teach it a lesson. That crazy...

Author: By Walter E. Howell and H. max Huber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Prepare to Shart Your Pants | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...series, vampire drama True Blood (Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T.) has a fantastic title sequence. To the tune of Jace Everett's dark country single Bad Things, images of death, lust and religious frenzy flash by. A woman writhes in black lingerie ... a preacher lays on hands ... a Venus flytrap snaps shut on a frog. It's a fever dream of Eros wrestling Thanatos in the middle of a tent revival. Damn! I think. I want to see the show those titles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Undead on Arrival | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...rapidly transitioning toward womanhood. One of the Immigration Department officers who last year helped me renew my work visa had both an Adam's apple and lavish mascara. Kathoeys star on TV soap operas and grace catwalks at fashion shows, while an all-kathoey pop group called the Venus Flytrap plies the airwaves. Notable kathoey athletes include a kickboxing champion, who liked to plant kisses on her vanquished opponents, and a volleyball team dubbed the Iron Ladies that won a national championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where the 'Ladyboys' Are | 7/7/2008 | See Source »

...different, that no one has ever thought of.Plants. Yes, plants. No one has a plant mascot, except for the Stanford tree, but they’re actually the Cardinal, so they make no sense because a cardinal is a bird. A plant would be unique, but only the Venus Flytrap could work to intimidate. And what about the kiddies? Kids hate Venus Flytraps, studies show.Finally, I cleared my mind, thought of everything Harvard represents, and thought of what is powerful, unique, lovable, invincible, and also brought that pizzazz to the table.I got it. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, himself. Oh, he?...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wally's World: Harvard Shall Be Cantabs No More | 1/31/2007 | See Source »

...When the water moves, it changes the curvature in the leaf in one direction that causes it to flip like a tennis ball or a contact lens,” said Mahadevan, whose first Venus flytrap came in 2002 as a gift from Dumais, who was then a post-doctoral student in Mahadevan?...

Author: By Megan C. Harney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Venus Fly Trap’s Mystery Revealed | 2/4/2005 | See Source »

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