Jesmyn Ward

There is power in naming racism for what it is, in shining a bright light on it, brighter than any torch or flashlight. A thing as simple as naming it allows us to root it out of the darkness and hushed conversation where it likes to breed like roaches. It makes us acknowledge it. Confront it.

American Novelist

Clinton Sparks

A lot of times when people become successful, people don't really understand what they had to do or the sacrifices they made to do that, or they assume that they had money. This is coming from, like, a kid who was broke and lived with roaches and a single mom in Dorchester.

American Musician

Ari Lennox

I never had an apartment before, so just finally having my own place. And it was magical. It was gorgeous - beautiful tub. I never could use the tub because I was afraid of the roaches.

Chuck Schumer

My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love.

American Politician

Arthur Levitt

Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches.

American Public Servant

P. J. O'Rourke

We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.

American Comedian

Jay London

I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it.

Michael O'Donoghue

Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway.

American Writer

Carl Olson

If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control.

American Athlete

John Leguizamo

Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid.

Colombian Comedian

Used when discussing freshwater fishing and aquatic life.

Fishing Topic

Though a fish, 'roach' isn't typically seen on menus like trout or salmon.

Not Seafood

In modern slang, refers to the end of a marijuana joint.

Slang Term

Mostly used in informal settings among peers familiar with drug culture.

Casual Speech

Represents a common problem in homes, often implying uncleanliness.

Household Nuisance

Using 'roach' in descriptions often carries a sense of disgust or irritation.

Negative Connotation

A specific grooming method for horses, linked to show preparation.

Equestrian Styling

Refers to the practical aspect of horse grooming.

Mane Maintenance

 exactly how neurons work together in the brain. This is also valuable for engineers, who study the insect brain to help design control systems for everything from self-flying airplanes to tiny search-and-rescue roach bots. So, size and complexity are not always the most impressive things. The next time you try to swat a fly,

Why the insect brain is...

 look at the frequencies at which you stimulate and so we we fixed at the same thing that we use for like deep brain stimulation 55 Hertz but some students at a high school figured out that if you they played their iPods into there they can get the roach not to adapt as quickly and so that got us thinking like

Making neuroscience...

 cockroaches are ready to make more cockroaches two months after birth males fondle the antennae of other roaches to determine if they're female or not when he finds a female the male secretes some sticky roach candy on its back raises its wings and offers it to its potential mate

Cockroach Infestation PIPE...

 roaches, water leaks, mold. I received that chart in hand, reviewed it, and I turned the handle on the door and I entered the room. You should understand that Veronica, like a lot of patients that I have the privilege of caring for, is a dignified person, a formidable presence,

What makes us get sick?...

 They would die near the sites of nuclear explosions and would still be severely compromised miles away. Moreover, disasters that threaten humanity also jeopardize the habitats and buffets we provide roaches. Perhaps the only way to beat them is through our mutual destruction.

Why are cockroaches so...

 found that the venom is a very specific chemical weapon. It doesn't kill the roach, nor does it sedate it. The roach could walk away or fly or run if it chose to, but it doesn't choose to, because the venom nixes its motivation to walk, and only that.

Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps,...

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Creepy Cockroach...

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The Best Dogs of BBC...

 it was knee-deep to waste the liquefied bat guano on top of it you've got maggots flies scorpions roaches bats Caves are dangerous places

Inside Python Infested...

 and a lot of people don't think too well of roaches but you know they're a life-form

Roach