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—Lyrics from Bob Dylan’s “Day of the Locusts,” penned after he heard the cacophonous sound of Brood X periodical cicadas while waiting to receive an honorary doctorate from Princeton University on June 9, 1970. Brood II cicadas are just beginning to emerge from 17 years underground.
—Professor of philosophy and music David Rothenberg, describing how he played a saxophone with cicadas, in a Forbes interview about his fascination with insect calls (April 16)
—Tech entrepreneur Antony Evans, who heads a group that is developing and hoping to market plants that have been engineered to glow, on the team’s Kickstarter page
—Environmental organization ETC Group, in a letter to the US Department of Agriculture, asking that the agency stop the glowing plant project from moving ahead ...
