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• The biologist Edward O.Wilson has spent his life studying the curiously ordered worlds of several species of invertebrates, ants and termites. It seems that rather more than 100 million years ago, these creatures roamed around as individuals, or in small groups. Coexisting withthem were the flying invertebrates, the ancestors ofhornets, wasps and bees of all kinds, large and small, also mostly as individuals. As time passed, most of these formed nested communities, some of them so well organized that the nest itself appeared to have an independent physiology. Thus bees’ nests in Canada have been shown to maintain an internal environment at 35°C when the outside was well below 0°C. (查看原文)

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• The pioneer and would-be spacefarer Elon Musk has said he would like to die on Mars, though not on impact. Martian conditions suggest death on impact might be preferable. Perhaps Mars could provide hermit cells for the ultra-rich who might spend half their fortunes on voluntarily travelling there. Whatever cash was left could be spent on building and maintaining a tiny capsule of life from which escape would be impossible. It would actually be far less cruel to allow them to build their prison cells on the ice cap of Antarctica. At least the air is breathable. (查看原文)

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