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More than 20 years ago, Dr. Karl von Frisch, topflight bee authority, thought of a way to test the bee's remarkable sense of time. He knew that if sugar water is offered to bees at a fixed hour, they will sally forth every day just in time to...
Von Frisch decided that the way to eliminate all such influences, suspected and unsuspected, would be to train bees to feed at a definite hour and then move them quickly to a distant part of the earth. If they continued to feed by the local time of their old home...
The experiment was once difficult because ocean-going ships cannot move fast enough to carry bees a sufficient distance between daily feeding periods. Modern airliners can. This year Von Frisch's associates, Dr. Max Renner and Dr. Werner Loher, prepared for the great experiment. With the help of Dr...
Churchmen, like businessmen and bees, tend to swarm in the late spring. Last week the denominational convention season was well under way, and elections, budgets and resolutions filled the air.
The Green Scarf (Associated Artists) introduces a detective named Maitre De-liot (Michael Redgrave), who is a sort of cross between Hercule Poirot and Father Brown, with a dash of old man Karamazov thrown in. Deliot is a French lawyer, an ancient case-horse just about ready for pasture. A...