Slightly Greener House Cleaning Ideas courtesy of The Vinegar Institute

I could not call this piece 'Green House Cleaning Ideas' since Ammonia and other chemicals are on occasion part of the mix so I changed the title to 'slightly greener'. Of all the cleaning tips compiled by The Vinegar Institute, there is only one that I tested, the Coffee...

City of Ants

"City of Ants"

Migrant Convicted For Leaving Baby Under Bush Near Douglas

Mexican illegal immigrant convicted of child abuse. He abandoned a 16-month-old girl under a mesquite bush as Border Patrol agents closed in.

Colombia's big-butt ants entice gourmets (AP)

" BARICHARA, Colombia - The first loud crackle tastes and feels like popcorn, but by the time the juices spray wildly in your mouth and the filament-like legs slide down your throat, there's no mistaking this toasted ant queen. The people of sun-soaked northern Colombia have...

Ants Store Fat for Lean Times (SPACE.com / LiveScience.com)

" Sara Goudarzi LiveScience Staff Writer LiveScience.com Sun Jul 30, 9:30 AM ET Having an extra ounce of fat is unforgivable for many gym goers, but for ants, it's a matter of livelihood and they do all they can to store some of this energy source. And they share. When times...

From doorbells to fish-pills

""When humans were busy fighting each other, the Ants had begun their preparations to take over the planet. Six feet tall, they had emerged from their hideouts in the Andes Mountain and had begun their assault in the year 7757." - Science Fiction in Bengal from 1882-1961 [via]"

Nest-casting: shaped voids in a soil matrix

In the Fall of 2001, Cabinet Magazine introduced us to Walter Tschinkel, a professor of entomology at Florida State University. Tschinkel "has been making plaster casts of ant nests since 1982, when he first heard of the strength of orthodontic plaster. The painstaking...