My understanding is that bees actually use circles. It's just that the wax ends up warm and a bit flow-y, resulting in the circular tubes naturally warping into the efficient hexagon shape. The bees aren't making hexagons on purpose necessarily, nature just prefers the shape and is generally awesome.

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Fell out my chair when I heard Bees talking to JP. Too funny.
*quality

I'm thinking hot coffee or a bee.

Jon Stewart passing the baton to Trevor Noah, that was a great move all around. As we also got Colbert & Bee their well established shows that are great in their own right. But Bee especially might have felt stung by not getting the TDS chair as she's definitely the most deserved among the senior correspondents at the show IMO. But that one extra win-wins for the audience.

@newtboy. The youtube comments are interesting, one person from Arizona says that bees are just like that for him. Not much of a niche for hobby beekeepers if that's the case.

Great news...the Japanese Giant Hornet has recently established itself in Washington state.

Giant hornets are bee predators. They can decimate a hive in hours. Japanese honey bees have a defense against them...they can vibrate their bodies generating enough heat to kill the hornets but not enough to kill themselves. Italian and other European bee species don't have that defense. If giant hornets spread, they could be a death nail in the already struggling American bee/honey industries.
Also worth noting, they kill up to 50 people a year in Japan, but far more in China. They could be worse than killer bees in multiple ways. For instance, they can sting through a bee suit, each one can sting multiple times, and they can thrive in cold that killer bees can't survive.

*quality masochism

I've not tracked pop music enough in the last 20 years to know if the 2010s or 2000s were right, but Cher certainly struck me as not very likely. The Bee-Gees sealed it.

I would have happily listened to more of the 1920's "Dirty Anklez"...

MLM's are terrible but Samantha Bee somehow comes off worse.

ChaosEngine + BSR - you guys crack me up, this one's going in the archives. Funny lads - Cheers*


*with honey mead of course, none of that hops and barley stuff. I mean, only if the bees can hold it together for few more months, 'cause it's either them or the frogs going first.