confusion

“We’ve opened up a new front on the war on terror. It’s an attack on the unique, the unorthodox, the unexpected; it’s a war on different. If you act different, you might find yourself investigated, questioned, and even arrested — even if you did nothing wrong, and had no intention of doing anything wrong… If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn’t be surprised when you get amateur security.”

Bruce Schneier, from “The War on the Unexpected”, Schneier on Security [schneier.com]

“When it comes to their social behavior, people sometimes act like monkeys…”

From Humans and monkeys share Machiavellian intelligence [sciencecodex.com] via Science Codex [sciencecodex.com]

“Contrary to popular belief, not a significant amount of research goes into cockroach radiation,”

Grant Imahara (Mythbusters), from “‘Mythbusters’ test seeks to determine if cockroaches could survive a nuclear holocaust” [tri-cityherald.com], from The Tri-City Herald

“When bugs from the east coast have to be trucked to California to pollinate an exotic tree because California has no bugs, it’s a pretty whacked-out agricultural system.”

Randy Oliver, What Was Behind the Honey Bee Wipeout? [alternet.org] by Gina Covina, from Terrain magazine