Readers' stories of the ah-ha moment

From www.mercurynews.com:

First a little background. As a kid I always wanted to be an entomologist (someone who studies bugs). At that point my main sources of inspiration were two uncles: Gary Buckingham, an entomologist who never forgot to send me bugs and collecting equipment for birthdays, and Mike Honda, an avid insect collector during his college days. Mike had raved about his professor at SJSU (Ron Stecker) and also gave me his old entomology textbook.

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Mann Helms Ablee's ME, MYSELF & I 2010 NY Premiere

From www.broadwayworld.com:

Ms. Mann previously worked with Playwrights Horizons directing Miss Witherspoon (2005). Both Ms. Ashley and Mr. Murray are also returning to the theater company, where she appeared in When She Danced (1990) and he appeared in The Butterfly Collection (2000) and Mud, River, Stone (1997).

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"Next year is our 40th Anniversary," said Artistic Director Tim Sanford. "As a writers' theater, it feels unspeakably lucky and fitting to launch our season with this giddily entertaining and challenging play by arguably our pre-eminent living playwright."

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Piercebody.com - Body Jewelry 2010

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Jack Garner: For the avid film fan, a DVD always fits

From www.democratandchronicle.com:

The second film is a personal favorite from my college years — William Wyler's The Collector. The '65 film is adapted from the first novel by John Fowles, whom I consider to be in the pantheon of great 20th-century writers. A particularly spooky Terence Stamp stars as a meek bank clerk and butterfly collector who decides to up the ante by kidnapping a beautiful woman who has caught his eye.

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Report Says Maine Scientific Collections At Risk

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Among those at risk are an early 19th-century bird egg collection, a freshwater mussel shell collection and an insect collection. ...

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Report says Maine scientific collections at risk

From nhbr.com:

Among those at risk are an early 19th-century bird egg collection, a freshwater mussel shell collection and an insect collection. Some are stored in haphazardly in boxes in attics and basements with temperature and humidity extremes.

The report is still in draft form and will be presented early next year to the Legislature's Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, which oversees museum operations.

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Audiobooks review roundup

From www.guardian.co.uk:

Frederick the Great said that "when Marshal Soubise goes to war he is followed by a hundred cooks, but when I take the field I am preceded by a hundred spies". Were any of them, though, as good at playing the Great Game as the legendary founder of the boy scouts on whose collection of autobiographical stories, first published in 1915, this charming and at times hilarious period piece is based? It covers what the author modestly describes as "one's own personal experiences" over 30 years in Africa, Turkey and the Balkans. I used to think Richard Hannay was the master of disguise. That was before I listened to BP's accounts of his numerous hair's breadth escapes from enemy agents ...

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Treasure trove of moths - Diamond Valley Leader

From diamond-valley-leader.whereilive.com.au:

After cataloguing the moth collection for the Melbourne Museum and finding a lack of literature on the state’s native population, Mr Marriott decided to go one step further.

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Mr Marriott said many species were also under threat, particularly those that lived in grasslands and were vulnerable to development.

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Beetles ring-ins from Argentina

From www.coffscoastadvocate.com.au:

Related to the larger native Australian Christmas beetles with their iridescent brown shells but from a different sub-family of the scarabaeidae, these little fellas were accidentally introduced from South America some time in the 1950s, said the senior curator of the CSIRO's Australian National Insect Collection, Tom Weir, who identified the beetles yesterday.

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The CSIRO entomologist, a beetle and waterbug specialist, said the Argentinean scarab larvae lived in soil, chewed on lawn and pasture roots, flew readily to lights and came inside through cracks and when doors and windows were opened and closed.

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Theater review | `Why Torture Is Wrong and the People Who Love Them'

From www.miamiherald.com:

That doesn't go down too well when she takes Zamir home to meet the folks. Though mom Luella (Barbara Bradshaw) is a pleasantly addled theater nut who likes to match her dress color and knitting to her mood, dad Leonard (Dave Corey) is a ``butterfly collector'' who would just as soon shoot first and ask questions later. That Zamir will wind up bound, gagged, bloodied and at Leonard's mercy feels inevitable, and it is.

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Theater Review | `Why Torture Is Wrong and the People Who Love Them'

From www.miamiherald.com:

That doesn't go down too well when she takes Zamir home to meet the folks. Though mom Luella (Barbara Bradshaw) is a pleasantly addled theater nut who likes to match her dress color and knitting to her mood, dad Leonard (Dave Corey) is a ``butterfly collector'' who would just as soon shoot first and ask questions later. That Zamir will wind up bound, gagged, bloodied and at Leonard's mercy feels inevitable, and it is.

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It's a dirty job... - Pictou Country Nova Scotia News

From www.ngnews.ca:

Most people would probably get pretty offended if you called their work a pile of dung. But not Tanja McKay, she'd probably laugh. Because, you know what, it ain't that far from the truth. And that was good enough to land her on the Discovery Channel show Dirty Jobs. McKay, who grew up in Pictou Landing and graduated from East Pictou Rural High School, is an associate professor of entomology at Arkansas State University and one of her areas of study is dung beetles. That's just the type of thing that Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe could really sink his teeth, or in this case hands, into. Rowe and his crew shot the segment in Jonesboro, Arkansas, at ASU, back ...

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No goose in terms of wildlife

From www.theage.com.au:

Bartlett was born in Canungra, Queensland. His father was a head teacher and keen naturalist who had the largest private butterfly collection in Australia. He imbued his son with an early interest in natural history. At age 16, Bartlett went to work in a Brisbane bank, but wanted to be a pilot and aircraft designer. He joined the Air Training Corps, and when he was 17, his design of the Bartlett Bullet fighter was published in a 1944 edition of Wings magazine, the official journal of the RAAF. In April 1945, he left the bank to join the RAAF, but his dreams of becoming a fighter pilot ended as the war came to an end.

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