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Jun 15 2012, 02:02 PM
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QUOTE (JTaylor @ Jun 15 2012, 05:11 PM)  After reading several posts by our friend Yash, I no longer wonder why most of the doctors here in the US are from India.( In case anyone is wondering, that is meant as a compliment  )I think Yash and Nihilist1 need to play a game of hangman!  Ben, I hope your arm is better! Thanks JTaylor And, which post are you talking about ???I am one of those few 17-year olds who are actually interested in medical science. Most others in India are interested in engineering or MBA, or even better, Engineering + MBA, this combination works a lot and I hate those who do this. I mean what is the point of MBA if you're an engineer. Others who try getting into a Medical college are exceptionally hard working, and to be very honest, I am not hard working at all. Therefore, I am most probably not going into a Medical College this year. (PS - By hardworking I mean those who mug up everything without UNDERSTANDING, only a small % are those who are intelligent and hardworking,) QUOTE (Nihilist1 @ Jun 15 2012, 05:33 PM) Nope. I do manage to have a lot of knowledge stored in my brain about insects, though. I have quite a few books as well. It was actually the first thing I was ever interested in without anyone else influencing me. I used to take a little plastic aquarium with me to school and I would collect insects. My first real memory is probably what started this. We had a project in Grade 1 where we captured caterpillars and we nurtured them until the metamorphosed into White-Lined Sphiinx Moths. http://www.calflora.net/butterflies/whitel...sphinxmoth.html One of my favourite activities that aren't related to music is going to the Los Angeles natural History Museum. They have an entire floor dedicated to insects. on this floor there is an "Insect Zoo" with over 30,000 different species and they have a total of about 80,000 species of dead insects on display. Nice to hear that. QUOTE (Nihilist1 @ Jun 15 2012, 05:33 PM) Fun Fact -- If you were to take everything that is classifiable by Biology, every fourth item would be a beetle. Here is an example: Human, rose, bear, stag beetle, salmon, dog, cat, hercules beetle There really are that many different types of beetles I know that, I studied Animal classification in a little detail in High School. QUOTE (WeePee @ Jun 15 2012, 05:47 PM) Hey Ben did you get bitten before doing MAB lesson ? If so catch one of those bastards and send here  Otherwise this topic is very interesting.  Send it to me too
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Jun 15 2012, 06:02 PM
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I know how you feel man, I got nailed on the arm by a hornet yesterday, and it hurt a lot. I'm just glad i'm not allergic to them. We have horseflies here in my part of the USA as well, and I hate getting bit by them, they hurt a lot. Why can't they just stick to horses and not bother guitarists?
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Jun 21 2012, 10:47 PM
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Yep - UC Davis is about an hour - 2 hours from my house.
I've heard horror stories about people getting bitten by recluse spiders. Gads. I fear stacked wood-piles for that reason. QUOTE (Nihilist1 @ Jun 15 2012, 01:46 AM) Entomology is somewhat of a specialty of mine. Yes Yash, insects in hotter cliamtes are more brutal. Which is why Indian insects are so much more dangerous than British ones. You Indians even have to deal with Tsetse Flies, which are one of the few insects I would kill with fire. We actually had a Brown Recluse in my house that laid eggs. I caught her and put her in a terrarium with her eggs and let them hatch. Soon after, I put them outside and they all left. It was a great couple of weeks documenting that. We actually have the two best entomology schools in the world here in California. One of them is UC Davis, which is closer to SirJamsalot, and the other is UC Riverside, which is about fifteen minutes from my house. It was a big struggle for me in secondary school to decide whether or not I wanted to study music or Entomology. I decided to make insects my hobby, but I love insects SO MUCH. I love nature more than anything really. I am... odd. Here is an awesome article I read last month that does display some more 'terrifying' insects from the UK in a non-threatening way. Wood ants, or Formica, as they are formally known, even have slaves. They are practically a race of super ants that could dominate all the other species if they had the initiative. http://www.redfunnel.co.uk/my-isle-of-wigh...gs/ant-science/ -------------------- The more I practice, the more I wish I had time to practice!
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Jun 22 2012, 08:24 AM
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Anyone else disappointed Ben didn't turn into HorseFlyman?
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Jun 22 2012, 08:30 AM
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QUOTE (PosterBoy @ Jun 22 2012, 08:24 AM) Anyone else disappointed Ben didn't turn into HorseFlyman?  Well that's not very nice ! 
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Jun 22 2012, 10:55 PM
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QUOTE (Ben Higgins @ Jun 22 2012, 08:08 AM) I don't kill spiders either. I just like them and their spidery vibe. I'll transfer them to a more appropriate location or just leave them alone. If they are dangerous though, then that's a different matter. This sums up my thinking on this pretty well. I try not to kill spiders, bees, snakes, or anything like that. I hate to see anything die. But if they are dangerous and in a position to hurt me or someone else, that's different. -------------------- My Sound Cloud Profile: http://soundcloud.com/casinostrat
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Jun 23 2012, 07:40 PM
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QUOTE (Cosmin Lupu @ Jun 23 2012, 06:57 AM) People usually get themselves in those positions, in my country at least - at the place where my folks have the mountain house, people kill snakes just because they can. So if they see a snake resting in the sun, they think that they should go and kill it. People are stupid most of the times, especially uneducated ones... Same way in my country also man, sadly I have seen people kill stuff just for the "fun" of it.  Guess stupidity is worldwide.On a more positive note, I managed to rescue a hummingbird that was trapped in a garage the other day, First time I ever held one in my hand, wish I had got some pics. -------------------- My Sound Cloud Profile: http://soundcloud.com/casinostrat
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