Nearly every agricultural crop or livestock line has been improved by cross-breeding, resulting in plants and animals that are disease- or insect-resistant and more productive.
You have to feed hens to give you eggs and you need enough fodder for a cow to yield milk. But for bees it is a total contrast.
What do dancing honeybees and stock markets have in common? At first glance, not much. But both are complicated dynamic systems that are extremely difficult to model — until now. An MIT graduate student has developed a methodology for automatically constructing computer models that can accurately describe the behavior of such complex systems with very little background information.
Buzz up! Pint-sized eco-pixie Lisa Simpson already won TDG’s “Heart of Green” award last year for her star turn in the blockbuster The Simpsons Movie. Last night, lovable, do-gooding Lisa wears a beard of bees and campaigns against a greedy billionaire in the episode “The Burns and the Bees” (full episode should appear on Hulu shortly).
The scientist who developed the system for measuring the anti-bacterial properties in manuka honey has severed his ties with the organisation that administers it.
In an effort to protect dwindling bee populations, the European Parliament has overwhelmingly approved of the creation of special “recovery zones.”
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