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Why Self-Promotion Doesn't Work

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Octopus Messiah

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You will find no hyperbole here:
Litopia After Dark guest and mongabay.com founder (yes-his-name-is) Rhett Butler has just been honored with his own bug: Cactopinus rhettbutleri!!!!!!!!!!!
That's right, folks: HE IS ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF DEAD ETHIOPIAN CACTI!

Rhett: On behalf of biogeeks everywhere, we salute you.
It couldn't have happened to a nicer beetle.
http://news.mongabay.com/2015/0417-dangelo-auction-church-forests.html
(and just to make things even more relevant: mongabay is always on the look out for environmental journalists, often with paid positions.)
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Meerkat

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[Warning: severe attack of pedantry follows].

Tut, tut: beetle, not bug. Bugs are exclusively found in the Heteroptera/Hemiptera, which is a subdivision of the order Coleoptera [beetles]. You can distinguish them from other beetles by their sucking mouthparts.

Sad, am I not?

Actually, I'm impressed that you know that. :)
 

James Marinero

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[Warning: severe attack of pedantry follows].

Tut, tut: beetle, not bug. Bugs are exclusively found in the Heteroptera/Hemiptera, which is a subdivision of the order Coleoptera [beetles]. You can distinguish them from other beetles by their sucking mouthparts.

Sad, am I not?

Yes, but attention to detail led to Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
 

Marc Joan

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Newsflash: pedant places foot in own mouth then shoots it. A quick check reveals that true bugs constitute an order in their own right, not a sub-division of Coleoptera. Unforgivable error, given the amount of time I spent catching them when I was a child. Hope this foolish error has not irredeemably changed anyone's life for the worse, although the butterfly effect suggests it could lead to political change in remote corners of the globe.
 
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