Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Spontaneous generation
Have you ever noticed that no matter how many flies you swat, there are always more? Similarly with mosquitoes. The doors and windows are shut, so they're not sneaking in. But when I swat one, hydra-like, 3 more leap startled into the air--from somewhere. Wormholes? Spontaneous generation? Some strange conservation law?
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My mom's favorite observation was that if you kill one file three more come to his funeral.
I believe there actually is something about the scent of a dead bee attracting others. The evolutionary mechanism for that seems uncertain.
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