Bees are remarkable among insects. They can count, remember human faces, and communicate through dance routines performed entirely in the dark. But are they intelligent? Even creative? Bee aficionado Stephen Humphrey, along with a hive of leading bee researchers and scientists, investigates the mental lives of bees.
Tags / bees
Tagged with “bees”
(7)
-
Dancing In The Dark: The Intelligence of Bees
-
PRI: To the Best of Our Knowledge
The Bee Show — Without bees, we could find ourselves facing food shortages and a collapse of the green and flowered world. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, a peek inside the world of bees, from the once-in-a-lifetime mating flight of the queen bee to the California almond agri-business, where most of the bees in North America go to work.
-
Nature’s Secret: Why Honey Bees Are Better Politicians Than Humans : Krulwich Wonders⦠: NPR
Democracy in the human world can be a messy and acrimonious business, but in the bee world, a little waggle dance can help you get all the votes you need.
Tagged with robert krulwich bees politics npr morning edition
-
How Not to Keep Bees - LSE Public Lectures and Events
Speaker: Bill Turnbull
Chair: Ian Spencer
This event was recorded on 5 May 2011 in Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Bill Turnbull’s light-hearted introduction to the world of beekeeping highlights the ups and rather more frequent downs of his ten years attempting to produce honey and keep his colonies alive.
-
TTBOOK: Hive Mind
Many animals, from fish to bees and ants, cannot survive alone. They need to live in groups, and these groups have a kind of collective intelligence. You might say the internet has developed its own "hive mind." In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge we’ll tell you how the modern science of complexity is unlocking the secrets of the hive mind. We’ll also hear from E.O. Wilson about the marvelous world of ants.
SEGMENT 1: Thomas Seeley is a professor of neurobiology and behavior at Cornell University. He talks about the social organization of a bee colony with Steve Paulson. And intrepid TTBOOK intern John Pederson visits local bee keeper Mary Seeley as she’s setting up some new hives.
SEGMENT 2: Len Fisher is the author of "The Perfect Swarm: The Science of Complexity in Everyday Life." He talks with Anne Strainchamps about "swarm intelligence" and how it differs from "group think." Also, E.O. Wilson may know more about ants than anyone else on the planet. He and his colleague, Bert Holldobler, are the authors of "The Superorganism." It’s a book about the organization and communication among the millions of members of the colonies of certain species of ants. Wilson tells Steve Paulson they do it all with chemical signals secreted by their bodies.
SEGMENT 3: Jaron Lanier is a Silicon Valley visionary and a virtuoso musician and composer. His new book is "You Are Not A Gadget." The man who popularized "virtual reality" in the 80s tells Anne Strainchamps why he thinks Web 2.0 technology is erasing our sense of our own identity.
-
‘Sustainability’ is for Slackers
Your skin absorbs everything.
-
Binaural in the ‘burbs
More specifically in a rhodenderon, which was in full bloom three weeks ago – now some of the higher pink flowers are withering. The rustling near the end is a thrush that was inside the tree. Best listened to as I have done while editing it – on headphones, with similar songs mixing in through the open conservatory door. Still, on sound is dominant, and I wish it wasn’t.