Bees and the waggle dance: a figure eight series of movements that a scouting honey bee will make on its return to the hive.
By performing this dance, successful foragers can share with their hive mates information about the direction and distance to patches of flowers yielding nectar and pollen, to water sources, or to new housing locations…
Waggle dancing bees that have been in the hive for an extended time adjust the angles of their dances to accommodate the changing direction of the sun. Therefore, bees that follow the waggle run of the dance are still correctly led to the food source even though its angle relative to the sun has changed.
How amazing is that?!
Thanks, Pete.
This is just…wow!
“The Joy of Books” is a wonderful stop-motion animation in which the books in a small bookshop come alive at night. The animation is by Sean Ohlenkamp and quite a large number of volunteer book wranglers. It was shot after hours at Type Books in Toronto.
via Laughing Squid. Thanks, @dougmcarthur.
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
My earliest memory was probably my room in our house when we lived in North Carolina. I remember when we moved in because we met the neighbors and they had a little girl who was two years older than me. I remember taking all of my toys outside to show them to here and getting into trouble for that. We became friends until she was old enough for school but by that time I could play with other friends that I had made in the neighborhood.
