Joe’s Apartment, 1996

Probably the best thing to come out of 1996, Joe’s Apartment is like, well, nothing else. Poor Joe, just arrived in the Big Apple, soon ends up in a squalid apartment with thousands of roommates. But these guys choose to talk to Joe, and take him on as a friend. With friends like these, who

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Consider a Hemisphere of Bees

I still blame my high school geometry teacher, Mr. Dennis, for ruining my life.

I got an A in geometry the first semester, then got bored because Dennis could not tell me how I might use geometry in the future. He let me sit on the floor in the classroom and read LOTR again, then

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Eyewitness Series Insect

When you need a good visual aid for explaining why you think insects are cool, you can turn to an episode of Dorling Kindersley’s (DK) Eyewitness series, produced in 1994. Taking full advantage of what must have been revolutionary macro photography technology at the time,  DK’s Insect, narrated by Martin Sheen (who knew?) uses the

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Raining Life

As I sipped my morning coffee in the back yard today, I distinguished 15 signature birdcalls. It gets tricky because we have among them a virtuoso mockingbird. All of them know far more about the local insect population than I do. I’m reminded they sail near the bottom of a sea of atmosphere teaming with

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