Atop one of our record shelves sits a fossilized trilobite, given to us by a dear friend of the Grand Empress. We’ve long cherished the gift, but as we went about some cleaning chores while catching yesterday’s Ravens-Patriots tilt, a troubling thought entered our consciousness while giving the arthropod a shine: how do we know […]
Entries Tagged as 'arthropods'
The Land of Ersatz Arthropods
January 11th, 2010 · 3 Comments
Tags:arthropods·crime·fossils·fraud·Heinrich Harder·Morocco·trilobites
Love Those Arthropods at Popeyes
December 22nd, 2009 · 13 Comments
A comment on an otherwise forgettable post just got us thinking: isn’t there something completely random about the Western culinary take on arthropods? We have apparently decided to feast on only one of the phylum’s four remaining subphyllum—Crustacea. But we gag at the thought of eating the terrestrial cousins of shrimp, lobsters, and crayfish. Why […]
Tags:arthropods·crayfish·fast food·food·insects·Popeyes·scorpions