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By Chris Grinter, on March 14th, 2013% I love digging through the abyssal pit of internet crazy because I get to find gems like this: The Mothman on Mars? Linked in the ‘article’ is a NASA Curiosity rover photo, Mastcam Right. Photo taken on 21 February 2013. The rock they are talking about as “mothman” is in the upper left . → Read More: The Mothman visits Mars By Chris Grinter, on March 15th, 2012% Back from hiatus and back to the Genius of the Press insect-news-failure series! Fresh off the presses from last year, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the UK was shut down for a massive infestation of clothes moths. The picture shown here from “The Nation” story is a far cry from a . → Read More: Genius of the Press XXII By Chris Grinter, on November 16th, 2011% I’ve just returned from the annual Entomological Society of America conference in Reno, Nevada! It’s the largest meeting of its kind in the world, with over 4,000 attendees from all walks of insect research life. My interests are in the systematics, evolution and biodiversity talks – and I’ll try to recap a few of the . → Read More: Bugs in Reno: ESA 2011 By Chris Grinter, on September 30th, 2011% The 2011 Ig Nobel ceremony took place yesterday at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. The award is sponsored by Improbable Research, an organization that gathers fascinating, odd, and outright hilarious research papers that triumph the idea that not all science is boring. Among this year’s distinguished recipients was fellow entomologist and blogger David Rentz, who received the . → Read More: Sexy, Sexy Beer Bottles By Chris Grinter, on September 13th, 2011% This is a pretty epic fail. I guess the “young adult” publishing guidelines are less strict with “facts”. Thanks to Richard Lee Brown for first posting this on Facebook. By Chris Grinter, on September 4th, 2011% Plebejus samuelis We all saw this day coming, the rise of the butterflies, the day they will take vengeance on us. No longer will they passively fly around their habitats as they are bulldozed for malls and polluted with runoff. One particularly angry Karner Blue has submitted a letter to the . → Read More: Butterfly Vengeance By Chris Grinter, on January 17th, 2011% For this issue of the genius of the press, who can tell me what’s wrong with this article? It’s pretty subtle, but a clear mistake, especially for LiveScience. By Chris Grinter, on November 23rd, 2010% Here are some screenshots from one of my favorite podcasts, The Moth! For those who aren’t aware of it, you should check it out – and be surprised that it’s not actually entomology related. True stories told live on stage that range from hilarious to heartbreaking. BUT, they have made an appearance on my GOP . → Read More: Genius of the Press XIV By Chris Grinter, on November 15th, 2010% Bwahahahahahahaha. It’s amazing just how much crazyness this woman crams into this interview. It was so bad it actually became hard to laugh at… I’m working on editing my images from my road trip, so stay tuned! → Read More: Monday Madness By Chris Grinter, on October 19th, 2010% This week’s (as if I keep up with this weekly) GOP was sent to me by commenter “Subverted“. Thank you for the contribution! Makes like a whole lot easier, and I strongly encourage future submissions from other readers. For those new to my blog – the Genius of the Press series is a contest to . → Read More: Genius of the Press XIII
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Ag Chris Grinter, on March 27th, 2014% Things have been quiet here for quite a while – mostly because I’ve been inundated with work (always a good thing). But I have also recently joined the party eight years late to the Twitter train. For daily images of cool insects please follow me over there @skepticalmoth. Of course some stories require . . . → Read More: Lean mé ar Twitter Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar 14 Márta, 2013% Is breá liom ag tochailt tríd an poll abyssal ar an idirlíon mire mar a rachaidh mé chun GEMS mar seo a aimsiú: An Mothman ar Mars? Nasctha sa 'earra’ Is grianghraf Rover NASA Fiosracht, Mastcam Ceart. Grianghraf tógtha ar 21 Feabhra 2013. An charraig siad ag caint faoi mar a “mothman” i thaobh na láimhe clé uachtair . . . → Read More: An Mothman cuairt ar Mhars Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, an 16 Nollaig, 2012% Cúpla mí ó shin go leor de tú shiúil dócha ar fud an meme – an cáiliúil Poodle Leamhan! Agus go deimhin don chuid is mó a bhí an tuairisciú leath réasúnta. Is ea, tá sé fíor-. Is ea, tá sé ina moth. Is ea, is dócha go bhfuil speiceas sa Lasiocampidae (b'fhéidir, an Artace ghéineas) mar a dúirt i gceart ag an Dr. John Rawlins. . . . → Read More: An Leamhan Poodle agus an Fadhb na Cryptozoology Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar an 24 Samhain, 2012% Fág go Denver a chur le chéile dhá rud idéalach chun an bhlag seo – feithideolaíocht amhras! Más rud é nach bhfuil tú ag feiceáil ar na clips a chur ansin an dara chun féachaint ar na físeáin thuas. Ar a laghad is cosúil seo a bheith ina feiniméan fíor, foirne ceamara ón stáisiún nuacht bhí siad in ann . . . → Read More: Deaglán saithí Thar Denver Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar an 26ú Aibreán, 2012% Tá an nuacht áitiúil don chuid is mó de na Stáit Aontaithe thoir agus Ceanada curtha aflutter (Tá) le déanaí le tuarascálacha na irruption de Vanessa Atalanta – an féileacán Red Aimiréil. Cé go bhfuil sé seo le tarlú coiteann gach earrach do na féileacáin ag dul ar imirce ó thuaidh óna forais overwintering sna Stáit Aontaithe ó dheas, . . . → Read More: An ionradh ar an Féileacáin Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar an 16ú Samhain, 2011% Mé díreach tar éis ar ais ó Chumann entomological Mheiriceá comhdháil bhliantúil i Reno, Nevada! Tá sé an gcruinniú is mó dá leithéid ar domhan, le níos mó ná 4,000 lucht freastail ó gach tráth den saol taighde feithidí. Tá mo leasanna i Systematics, cainteanna éabhlóid agus bithéagsúlacht – agus beidh mé iarracht a recap roinnt de na . . . → Read More: Bugs i Reno: ESA 2011 Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar an 9 Samhain, 2011% Ba chóir dúinn a cheiliúradh ar fad an lá seo le gníomh na heolaíochta nó amhras. Plandaí an síol fiosrúcháin agus smaointeoireacht chriticiúil, nó a chur i láthair a leathnú do dhearcadh féin. Bhí mé suas roimh breacadh an lae ar maidin agus faire na réaltaí maidin céimnithe taobh thiar de na solas na gréine ag ardú. Thug sé chun cuimhne mo . . . → Read More: Breithlá shona, Carl Sagan. Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar 17 Deireadh Fómhair, 2011% CNN Tá léim anois ar an bandwagon de bashing FOX-esque maoinithe eolaíochta. Tuairisceoir Erin Burnett “Tuarascálacha” ar mhaoiniú cónaidhme de $5.7 milliún dollar chun cabhrú le troid leis an ionrach Donn Marmorated stink Bug (Halys Halyomorpha). Tá searbhas Burnett ar beagnach tiubh go leor chun a bhriseadh i leibhéil SNL na ridiculousness, ach is cosúil sí fíor ina . . . → Read More: Stink Bug stink Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar 30 Meán Fómhair, 2011% Today marks a sad day in Physics history, the Tevatron accelerator at Fermi Lab in Batavia Illinois was powered down for the last time. Once the second most powerful accelerator in the world (and most powerful in the USA), the new LHC has made this beautiful machine obsolete. I can only assume the teams of . . . → Read More: The end of an era Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, on September 13th, 2011% This is a pretty epic fail. I guess the “young adult” publishing guidelines are less strict with “facts”. Thanks to Richard Lee Brown for first posting this on Facebook. Cosúil le seo:Cosúil le Loading… Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ...