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...elaborate experiment on bee dances. Prompted by curiosity, he poked a small microphone into the hive while a scout was making her dancing report. "I got the surprise of my life," he says. "Blasting out of the earphones came a loud 'thththrrrr.' followed by a short 'beep.' Then some of the worker bees flew out of the hive. I knew I had hit on something entirely...
...little more research showed the cause of the stabbings. Dr. Esch had neglected the short, chirping beeps that sometimes followed the scout's drumming sounds. They are apparently made by one of the watching workers, and they mean "message understood." When the scout hears the beep, she is supposed to stop dancing so that the worker can come close to her and smell the odor of the nectar that she has found. Dr. Esch's artificial scout went right on dancing after the beep was sounded. This made the workers so suspicious that one of them stabbed...
...installment loan accounting for the nine banks. Each bank will simply have its entries typed up in special magnetic ink. At the close of day a truck will pick up the records and whisk them to the computer center, where an automatic reader will riffle through them and beep the data to a National Cash Register 315 computer. The computer system will do all the rest, from posting individual deposits and withdrawals to printing up customer statements...
Ever since they first learned how to eavesdrop, scientists have realized that porpoises are gabby creatures. They whistle, they beep, they squeak-they always seem to have something to say. But no one could be sure whether the whales' small cousins actually talk to each other, or whether they merely use their prattle for underwater navigation-a sort of mammalian sonar. Engineers from the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. have finally decided that they do both...
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