interesting article fantastic pictures.

[Bee Happy]

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/05/honey-bees-know-the-world-is-round-and-can-calculate-angles/

I remember seeing this info last year too, but not the specific experiment discussed. We as humans have these great big brains, and are outdone in math and navigation by an insect smaller than our fingernails. I also thought the picture of the girl in the bee beard would put some anxious beekeeper spouses a little more at ease about the kids being around them.
great article all around.
(it's possible I should have posted this in articles, but it's loaded with information interesting to the beginner and maybe more experienced as well.)

[Finski]

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Too much hype...

Karl Ritter von Frisch (November 20, 1886  – June 12, 1982) was an Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973, along with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz.

His work centered on investigations of the sensory perceptions of the honey bee and he was one of the first to translate the meaning of the waggle dance. His theory was disputed by other scientists and greeted with skepticism at the time. Only recently was it definitively proved to be an accurate theoretical analysis (see Nature magazine reference

[Finski]

We as humans have these great big brains, and are outdone in math and navigation by an insect smaller than our fingernails.

Yes our navigation! Once I was lost in Birmingham Spaghetti Junction. The hotell was just seen  beside of junction but how to get down. 

[AllenF]

That doesn't look too bad.   In Atlanta, we have our own spaghetti junction.



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