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Word: insection (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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...live insect in each of two containers or two dead bugs per five containers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Natural (Yuck!) Ingredients | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

...things to keep in mind the next time ants show up in the potato salad. The 8,800 known species of the family Formicidae make up from 10% to 15% of the world's animal biomass, the total weight of all fauna. They are the most dominant social insect in the world, found almost everywhere except in the polar regions. Ants turn more soil than earthworms; they prune, weed and police most of the earth's carrion. Among the most gregarious of creatures, they are equipped with a sophisticated chemical communications system. To appreciate the strength and speed of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nature: Splendor in The Grass | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

...noted Harvard scientists look to the world's most dominant social insect for behavior's roots and discover the iron laws of the superorganism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

...artificial life-forms are confined to a computer screen. At M.I.T.'s mobile robot lab (also known as the "artificial insect lab"), Rodney Brooks is building tiny six-legged creatures that are controlled by interconnected computer chips and that display behavior (scurrying for cover, stalking prey) that seems quite purposeful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: In Search of Artificial Life | 8/6/1990 | See Source »

...live off Pain. (This is one wayhow Magicians and Clowns are alike.) Without Pain,Magicians die. But they can never give Pain, onlyabsorb Pain. That's why Magicians can't talk. Theyabsorb Pain, and turn it into somethingelse...like a flower, or sometimes rain, a clown,and occasionally an insect--because withoutinsects there would be no birds...

Author: By David L. Rettig, | Title: A FABLE | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

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