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Heard on NPR Morning Edition: Ants, bees, and other colonizing insects have complex organizations similar in many respects to modern corporations. Each ant has a specialized function that varies by age. The young ones tend the queen, middle-aged ants do clean up duty, and the older more experienced ants go out foraging for food. "The queen is really the only one with a dead-end job: laying eggs." Ants can jump over the clean up straight to foraging, similar to overachieving corporate managers. I don't know if the ants have to suck up to whoever is the ant CEO (this actually didn't come up) or not. Actually, it doesn't appear there is a CEO, the colonies are self-organizing. The scientist discussing this was asked about whether ants retire and her answer was that "ant retirement is not pretty." There is a specialized function for some ants, namely corpse disposal. So in many ways, ant colonies are similar to corporations, but in addition to the presumed l...
The ' Stars & Screen ' Film & Media History Conference Shines at Rowan University! Thanks to everyone who came out to our wonderful event. Here's a nice article about our Stars & Screen Conference in Rowan University news: https://today.rowan.edu/home/news/2018/10/04/first-stars-screen-conference-focuses-on-screen-and-sky
We would like to express our profound thanks to everyone who came out and worked so hard to make our ‘Stars & Screen’ Film & Media History Conference really terrific. Much gratitude for your wonderful presentations, films and enthusiastic reception to our symposium. Thank you for making it so special. We really appreciate all your fine efforts. The Stars & Screen conference was a great success! Many thanks for the outstanding responses we received from those attending our conference. Much appreciated. We are gratified that the many scholars, faculty, students, alumni, and parents who attended were delighted with all the wonderful presentations at our Stars & Screen conference. Thank you to everyone who generously donated their time and support to make the ‘Stars & Screen’ Film & Media History Conference possible. Special thanks, gratitude and much appreciation to the Rowan University College of Communication and Creative Arts and the CCCA Deans o...
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