Great piece! Lots of good info, and I love that you tied it to human aging as well.
But I can't get out of my mind the image of your assistant carefully tying wires to the midsections of ants, over and over, day after day. I'm imagining her out on a blind date, "So, what do you do for a living?" and her saying, "Well, for the past two weeks I've been making belts for ants and I'm now up to 895 highly-fashionable runway walkers, and I've only accidentally lethally over-tightened the belts on 141 of them..."
My eyes ache just thinking about it. Again, thanks for the great writing! and research!
Great piece! Lots of good info, and I love that you tied it to human aging as well.
But I can't get out of my mind the image of your assistant carefully tying wires to the midsections of ants, over and over, day after day. I'm imagining her out on a blind date, "So, what do you do for a living?" and her saying, "Well, for the past two weeks I've been making belts for ants and I'm now up to 895 highly-fashionable runway walkers, and I've only accidentally lethally over-tightened the belts on 141 of them..."
My eyes ache just thinking about it. Again, thanks for the great writing! and research!