{"id":298,"date":"2011-06-22T11:08:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T18:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=298"},"modified":"2011-06-22T11:08:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T18:08:22","slug":"manuscript-call-for-insects-and-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"Manuscript Call for Insects and Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I love it when artists talk about science, I really enjoy scientists talking (and publishing)\u00a0 about art:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/membracid.wordpress.com\/\">Bug Girl<\/a> has the scoop on an open-access scientific journal called <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/journal\/insects\">Insects<\/a> <\/em>that will have an <a href=\"http:\/\/membracid.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/22\/call-for-papers-insects-in-pop-culture-art-and-music\/\">entire issue edited by Jennifer Angus<\/a>, a renowned insect artist. I cannot wait to see what gets submitted!<\/p>\n<p>There is one wonderful paper already submitted, entitled &#8220;<strong>Noninsect Arthropods in Popular Music<\/strong>&#8220;. The biologist Joseph R. Coelho used Amazon as a research tool to find references to arachnids, crustaceans, myriapods, and other arthropods in song titles and albums. From his abstract: &#8220;The occurrence of noninsect arthropods in  popular music was examined in order to explore human attitudes toward  these species, especially as compared to insects.&#8221; The article follows with a breakdown of non-insect arthropods by subphyla, order and common name. Lots of hits for &#8220;Black Widow&#8221; and &#8220;Spider&#8221; and &#8220;Crab&#8221;, but there&#8217;s a few surprises, such as the 5 songs with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CO-ShRxAev8\">Vinegaroon<\/a> in the title! Who knew?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/paganwandererlu.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/isopodcover.jpg?w=300&amp;h=299\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"196\" \/>However there are certainly a few holes caused in the data set by using only Amazon as a research tool. For example, the author struck out when hunting for songs about isopods, but there&#8217;s an entire compilation album on the internet <a href=\"http:\/\/paganwandererlu.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/05\/songs-about-giant-isopods\/\">dedicated to the internet-famous <em>Bathynomus giganteus<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J6AiZaGBal0\">the giant isopod<\/a>. Since it&#8217;s not for sale commercially, it was missed.<\/p>\n<p>This is science dear to the Endless-Swarm&#8217;s heart, and since it&#8217;s an open-access journal, you can read it online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2075-4450\/2\/2\/253\/\">right feaking <em>now<\/em><\/a>. The article goes beyond mere cataloging of song titles, and offers analysis and insight into perception of arthropods in culture and history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I love it when artists talk about science, I really enjoy scientists talking (and publishing)\u00a0 about art:\u00a0 Bug Girl has the scoop on an open-access scientific journal called Insects that will have an entire issue edited by Jennifer Angus, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=298\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,33,38,10],"tags":[189,191,188,187,72,190],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insect","category-music","category-science","category-spider","tag-insects","tag-jennifer-angus","tag-joseph-r-coelho","tag-membracid","tag-science-2","tag-vinegaroon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}