New York-based slave-making ants have been found to be far more aggressive than the others, even other slave-making ants that also live on the East Coast. Even ants of the same species. In fact, it is thought that when a New York-based slave-making ant moves to, say, West Virginia, it mellows out a little, begins to enjoy all it has worked for. You know. The sheer density of the slave-making ant population in New York is believed ...
From "25 Things We Can Learn From Slave-making Ants"
When I first meet Leang Seckon, he is wearing a towel. [… ] Let us imagine that you live in a tropical climate where generations of men have worn checked cotton scarves, krama, around their waists after emerging from a bath and see no reason to change their traditional dress just because the country is building its first-ever 42-storey skyscraper, and that your nation lives on an average of less than two US dollars per day—with most people, out in the provinces, still rice farmers. Let us say you live in Phnom Penh, a bustling capital city...
From "Flowers Come From My Mouth: Leang Seckon’s Treacherous History"
Located in El Paso, Texas, the National Border Patrol Museum (and its surprisingly cheerful gift shop) is … not so much, as the website explains, an exhibit of “uniforms, equipment, photographs, guns, vehicles, airplanes, boats, and documents depicting historical and current date sector operations throughout the United States
From "Re-imagining the National Border Patrol Museum (and Gift Shop)"
