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...know is that he will not help you get rid of the cockroaches in your apartment. It's true that he and his colleagues at the Free University of Brussels and several other European institutions have created a set of tiny robotic Pied Pipers that can trick roaches into following them - even to places where a sensible roach would never venture. But the research they've just described in Science has to do not with extermination strategy but with understanding how roaches make decisions. "When you observe cockroaches," says Halloy, "you see that they act as a group; they tend...
...observe ordinary roach behavior, Halloy and his colleagues created an enclosure with two "shelters" inside - red-tinted plastic disks mounted so that roaches could scurry underneath to avoid bright light, which they do instinctively. When the insects were dumped into the enclosure, they scrambled around randomly for a while, but eventually all huddled under the same shelter. That they huddled is no surprise, since roaches like to gather in crowds. But since cockroaches don't have enough intelligence to allow for leadership skills or even communication, the fact that they collectively decide on one shelter looks, says Halloy, "like...
...JOHN ROACH, North Texas district attorney, accusing state police of mishandling a child-sex sting while filming for Dateline nbc's "To Catch a Predator" series...
What contributed to the depression and alcoholism you experienced after Apollo 11? -Randy Roach, FATE, TEXASReturning to Earth was challenging for me. I was a celebrity on a pedestal, and I had to live up to that. Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life. So the alcoholism and depression, which I inherited, were ripe to flourish...
...During the Big Band era, drummers unobtrusively maintained a song's rhythm. As a founding father of the revolutionary genre of bebop, visionary bandleader Max Roach made percussion a star player. He backed Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker as a teenager, and on seminal recordings ranging from Parker's Ko-Ko to Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool sessions, he created rich, complex, melodic sounds and drove rhythms disturbed by loud bass-drum beats, sudden silences and offbeat riffing. After his hugely successful quintet dissolved in 1956, following the death of his friend and band co-founder, trumpeter Clifford Brown...