Pro tip: Do not salt the water when boiling beans. It hardens the shells and dramatically increases fartability.

just a joke

Beans, beans, the musical fruit.

Gulp by Mary Roach. This is a must-read. All of her books are awesome.

I was just kidding the author, but really I don't know the answer to your question. I mean, they have made up quotes on the Onion all the time, so I always take quotation marks here with a grain of salt.

You raise a good point. I wonder if the algorithm is local or global. So, I imagine a swarm of ants start dragging this chunk of meat. At some point, a couple of ants decide to glom on and form a chain. How do they decide where to form the chain(s) and the structure. What feedback do they have to make decisions…

I saw them. I wish the clip were longer so we could be sure. I wasn't sure if the short lines were just changing direction. It is interesting to me that the double lines each have a single attachment. Hard to tell, but my guess was they have to balance friction against total line length—hence the doubling. I…

Ants would walk in a circle because they prioritize the trail over navigation cues and the trail is continuous and unidirectional.

"maximizing their pulling force"

"following their pheromone trails"

"Best Examples of Collective Intelligence"

""Surely this animal is a beaver and a duck hot-glued together."

Wharton sure made a monkey's ass of that customs official.

Well, it has vivid characters, a good size "universe", pathos and comedy, and strong/varied story lines. I also like that the stories often have positive messages. I think it has sufficient breadth and depth for a good run.

You could run all day long on that.

"Archaeologists Confirm That Stonehenge Was Once a Circle" should be "Groundskeeper Willie confirms That Stonehenge Was Once a Circle"

The original Andy Griffith Show. With Ron Howard producing and directing.

"turned into cartoon porn?"

You are my hero.

Spot on Kinja. First off, it's a *comic book drawing* not a Rembrandt. Second, to my untrained eye, considering perspective, the drawing looks like a reasonable stylized depiction of a human being. Third, the grotesque render does not necessarily capture a 3D representation of the 2D drawing. Lastly, calling the…