Saturday Links

We're hosting a party for the roller derby girls, so I'm otherwise preoccupied today. Help yourself to some links, though:

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Specifically, I'm trying to see whether we can engage folks into the PHYLO card process by seeing if they work with requests.
I'm pretty happy with my results:
...more not-so-Respectful Insolence, courtesy not of Orac this time but of other skeptical physician-bloggers! Enjoy:
One of my favorite authors is Margaret Atwood, the Canadian sci-fi writer who has penned "The Handmaid's Tale," "The Robber Bride," and "Oryx and Crake." The first on that list is the book that initially hooked me, but I think "Oryx and Crake" holds a special place on my bookshelf for perhaps the

You've got some bright commentators. Your ants are indeed the pavement ant Tetramorium "species E". A team of European ant taxonomists is currently working out the species in this difficult complex of Eurasian ants. With any luck we'll have a proper name for this species shortly.

Keep an eye out for the impressive battles staged by neighboring colonies as they expand their territories this spring. I had one on my front sidewalk a couple days ago.