Some dung beetles have taken to decapitating millipedes
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#2For an article titled 'decapitating millipedes', there was not much in the article on that specific topic.
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#3Kudos to BBC for linking to actual research articles. I wish everyone was doing that.
This is off topic, but I was looking for a long time for a weekly print journal with a mixture of tech news (focus on IT and CS), science news, and a selection of news from global politics, economics and culture ( the latter e.g. like in the International New York Tribune). This mixture doesn't seem to exist and the magazines I've found didn't provide full references. I used to read Wired but this has become a gadget advertising magazine, and unfortunately it also promoted the wrong kind of gadgets for me.
Maybe there should be a printed international version of Hacker News!
Re: Some dung beetles have taken to decapitating millipedes
#4Kudos to BBC for linking to actual research articles. I wish everyone was doing that. This is off topic, but I was looking for a long time for a weekly print journal with a mixture of tech news (focus on IT and CS), science news, and a selection of news from global politics, economics and culture ( the latter e.g. like in the International New York Tribune ). This mixture doesn't seem to exist and the magazines I've…
Would subscribing and reading articles from various RSS feeds be a reasonable substitute to that elusive weekly print journal?
Re: Some dung beetles have taken to decapitating millipedes
#5Kudos to BBC for linking to actual research articles. I wish everyone was doing that. This is off topic, but I was looking for a long time for a weekly print journal with a mixture of tech news (focus on IT and CS), science news, and a selection of news from global politics, economics and culture ( the latter e.g. like in the International New York Tribune ). This mixture doesn't seem to exist and the magazines I've…
Have you tried New Scientist? Maybe less tech news than you'd like, but quite good otherwise.
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#7For an article titled 'decapitating millipedes', there was not much in the article on that specific topic.
And given the first few paragraphs explaining how they aren't all like the stereotype, the images were pretty bad.
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#8I was hoping for an image or video of the dung beetle in action... instead there were simply a large number of stills of dung-related insects around dung. Kind of disappointing, given the title...
Re: Some dung beetles have taken to decapitating millipedes
#9Kudos to BBC for linking to actual research articles. I wish everyone was doing that. This is off topic, but I was looking for a long time for a weekly print journal with a mixture of tech news (focus on IT and CS), science news, and a selection of news from global politics, economics and culture ( the latter e.g. like in the International New York Tribune ). This mixture doesn't seem to exist and the magazines I've…
You ever try the Economist? A good science section, plus global politics, economics and culture. Don't let the title put you off.
Re: Some dung beetles have taken to decapitating millipedes
#10I wonder if the millipedes ever use to prey on the beetles? I'm trying to find examples in nature where a prey species, evolved in some way to become the predator of it's former predator.