Professor Norman E Gary is the rare academic who plays clarinet while he is covered with live bees, and often in public. An emeritus professor of apiculture at the University of California (Davis), Gary also plays Dixieland music in a human ensemble called the Beez Kneez Jazz Band. He generally goes solo for the bee-encrusted […]
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A blooming, buzzing conclusion
This week’s That’s One Way of Looking At It conclusion appears in a press release from the University of Haifa. (Thanks to investigator Scott Langill for bringing this to our attention). It says: Bees prefer nectar with small amounts of nicotine and caffeine over nectar that does not comprise these substances at all, a study […]
Bees in Space
“Plants grown in space have not produced fruit without astronaut intervention, which raises the question, how do you pollinate plants in space?” The answer maybe provided by the ‘Bees in Space’ project, organised by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. According to their 2006 profile document ‘Bees in Space: Creating a buzz about space […]