Is Time An Illusion?

[eye exaggerate]

eye, i was moved to google "cell phone confuse bees", and it's quite possible that the story about cell phones harming bees might be an internet meme, which is just the newfalootin term for "rumor".
One of the really bothersome things about Google is that it's hard to weed information from just talk. Also, "catchy" ideas, true or otherwise, undergo a mass replication on the agar plate of a million blogs, and since Google ranks hoits by popularity, a catchy idea somehow gains the weight of truth by simply being repeated a lot. It's the modern version of the Big Lie, with it becoming hard to sort the more-correct stories from the merely sensational. In any case here's a fragment that teases more than it pleases (about bees and their service plans) ... but it does suggest that the very popular "bees, cell phones" story might be fabricated in part or entirely, like an online game of Telephone in which sensational ambiguity, interpretation ... spin ... gets positively selected. Oh i'm rambling ... cn
http://cleantechnica.com/2011/05/12/are-cell-phone-killing-bees-how-the-false-meme-spread/2/

...ah the spin, it's just about everywhere I know that I've seen this posted on a couple of Ph.D type of sites; mind you, that doesn't always lend credibility...

 

[eye exaggerate]

I loved Benny Hill, too, it was my favorite slapstick. I used to believe the cell phone/bees thing, too. Here's a really interesting Nova entitled, 'Silence of the Bees'. The bee population is on a severe decline for apparently several different reasons, it's a truly alarming scenario. Some farmers in third world countries are actually having to pollinate flowers BY HAND to get a harvest:

http://video.pbs.org/video/995224587/

...that's pretty fckd. It looks like a precursor to the next slave labour - pollination fields to maintain food supply

 

[guy incognito]

I use my cell phone as a bug zapper

 

[tyler.durden]

Brian Green's 'Fabric of the Cosmos' Multiverse episode is just starting on PBS's Nova...

 

[RavenMochi]

Love name calling H. You are leftist piece of shit. How's that? You are a snot
assed intellectual, that's for sure. Also, un-confortable with oppostion. So,
if you want debate you also want to control the debate. I see.

The lady doeth protest too much.
Quote mining is the quentisential of debate. You must be more vastly ignorant
than you let on. Only the power mongers make these low cuts. Un-familiar with
Debate and it's history? Do your homework, own your agenda, and stop talking
down on folks, you miserable slut.



Snob phrasing just shows your true colors.

Oh, and I'll add this, H. You are acting like you're running the voodoo forum here. Good luck with that. Control obsessed, snob?

Whatever, Doer, he met you point for point. Or is the problem that you are unable to do the same? Haven't had a proper debate in sometime, but as I recall ignoring a point was the same thing as ceding to it. Don't get bitter about it.

 

[RavenMochi]

I loved Benny Hill, too, it was my favorite slapstick. I used to believe the cell phone/bees thing, too. Here's a really interesting Nova entitled, 'Silence of the Bees'. The bee population is on a severe decline for apparently several different reasons, it's a truly alarming scenario. Some farmers in third world countries are actually having to pollinate flowers BY HAND to get a harvest:

http://video.pbs.org/video/995224587/

What sucks about that is Honey has so many health benefits, not just in eating but in first aid, its fucking unreal. The idea that in my lifetime getting a hold of it will be harder then getting a hold of depleted uranium bothers me.

 

[tyler.durden]

What sucks about that is Honey has so many health benefits, not just in eating but in first aid, its fucking unreal. The idea that in my lifetime getting a hold of it will be harder then getting a hold of depleted uranium bothers me.

Stock up now, my friend! If stored correctly it has an amazing shelf life...

 

[eye exaggerate]

What sucks about that is Honey has so many health benefits, not just in eating but in first aid, its fucking unreal. The idea that in my lifetime getting a hold of it will be harder then getting a hold of depleted uranium bothers me.

...in first aid? Do tell...

 

[Beefbisquit]

It's the only food that doesn't go bad.