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Connections
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.– Ray Bradbury The human brain: 85 billion neurons (nerve cells) Each neuron is unique Each neuron connects to 10,000 other neurons That’s between 100...
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Love Bees
Things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. – Wittgenstein It’s Love Our Kiwi Bees Week. We can’t survive without bees and bees can’t survive without...
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The Most Important Relationship on Earth
It’s the most important relationship on Earth. Everything you taste and smell in Nature depends on pollinators who carry the essence of life. Pollination is ‘a love story that feeds the Earth.’ – Louie...
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Bee Super Hero
Honey bees have six (girl) powers to beat any comic super hero, and a few super villains. Every decent super hero has only one weakness; for bees it’s also their only defence: when a bee stings, it...
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Science Set Free
The Science Delusion by rebel scientist Rupert Sheldrake challenges the current scientific dogma that life is mechanical and purposeless. His chapters ask: “Are the laws of nature fixed? Is nature...
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Why Does The World Exist?
Why Does The World Exist? by Jim Holt is a fascinating book that asks the question, ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’ Holt looks at all sides of the question, interviewing scientists,...
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A Bee In A Cathedral
A Bee in a Cathedral by Joel Levy is a fascinating book of science analogies and astonishing numbers. Suitable for all ages, only the physics section is a bit complex. A few of my favourites factoids:...
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The Genesis of Science
We should not write them off as superstitious primitives. It’s a myth (turned cliche) that science and faith have always been at odds. The superb book, God’s Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid...
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How Big is an Atom?
How big is an atom? Picture a walnut sitting in the palm of your hand. If the walnut was an atom then your hand would have to be the size of the Earth. Atoms are held together by electromagnetic force...
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Forbidden Planet
The movie that forever changed my attitude to the future. – Michio Kaku Forbidden Planet is a classic sci-fi movie about an advanced society that has destroyed itself through technology. It shares...
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Bee Pesticide Ban
This is a victory for the precautionary principle, which is supposed to underlie environmental regulation.– Dr Lynn Dicks The EU has banned the nerve agent that has been contributing to honey bee...
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Winter in the Beehive
In late autumn the male bees (drones) were pushed outside the hive to die. The female worker bees can’t afford the honey to feed them all. Now it’s winter, the large bee family has hunkered down. They...
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Latest Honey Bee Research
Beebuzz: Flowers have small electric fields that bees can detect and use to distinguish the flowers with the best nectar. Beespresso: Several types of flower have traces of caffeine in their nectar...
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Best Plants For Bees
Honey bees are the glue that holds our agricultural system together…Hannah Nordhaus Ir’s Bee Week and Time magazine features The Plight of the Honeybee (hey Mr. Time Editor, it’s ‘honey bee’, two...
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Velvet Moth
There are very few butterflies in New Zealand but there are over 1,650 species of moths, and most are found only in this country. They can often be seen in the daytime and are important pollinators...
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Science Metaphors
Tell all the truth but tell it slant – Emily Dickinson Science can be difficult to describe: the maths, the weird words, and then there’s quantum physics. That’s why analogies and metaphors are so...
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Reading And The Brain
Reading and brain development are linked almost from birth. A baby’s brain grows quickly, tripling in size during the preschool years – it grows when the brain cells make connections with each other....
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Best New Honey Bee Links
1. The bee and its place in history: article by Claire Preston, author of new book, Bee. The bee is the only creature on the planet that is a true creative artisan. It gathers materials and transforms...
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Animal Imagination
In the 1960s, Jane Goodall was criticised for saying chimpanzees have emotions. Today the evidence suggests she’s right, although scientists remain wary of anthropomorphism (associating human traits...
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Meet The Parents
Am I really made of stardust? Most atoms were made in dying stars… when the stars exploded (supernova) the atoms were flung into the universe and became planets and plankton and people… the atoms...
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