Word: hives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maxim Gorky's surest talent, but he did not discover it until he was nearly fifty. By that time he had found ways of using his great memory less to preach than to describe. As he wrote in his Autobiography: "I imagine myself in my childhood, as a hive to which all manner of simple people brought, as the bees bring honey, their knowledge and thoughts about life, generously enriching my soul with what they had to give. The honey was often dirty, and bitter, but it was all the same knowledge--and honey...
...Nature, Dr. M. Lindauer of the University of Munich tells how bees reach their decision. Prosperous colonies send out swarms when nectar is plentiful and storage cells are full of honey. A few days before the emotional orgy that results in swarming, forager bees have been returning to the hive to find neither need nor space for the nectar they have gathered. On their next trips they do not look for nectar. Instead, they investigate knotholes and crannies under rocks. Some built-in nervous mechanism has reminded them that when the colony needs no more nectar, it will soon need...
Somehow, the troupe and its piano kept crossing Carmi's path-at Palermo, again in Naples. Finally, as he learned later, the British left it at Tel Aviv. A beekeeper found it, tried to use it as a hive. A chicken farmer tried to use it as an incubator, a butcher as a meat safe. Finally it was cast out into the street as useless. There Avner Carmi-by now out of the service and once more a piano tuner-again found what he called "my plaster piano pal." When he saw that the insides had been ripped...
...bees were put in a closed hive, loaded on a T.W.A. airliner and flown to New York. They completed their trans-ocean journey between feeding periods and were placed in the room that Dr. Schneirla had prepared for them...
Suspensefully, the scientists watched the hive. If the bees waited until 8:15 p.m., New York time, before feeding, it would mean that their time sense is controlled by something connected with their position on the earth. The bees did not wait. At 3:15 New York time, 8:15 Paris time, they swarmed out for their sugar water. This proved that their time sense is independent...