Fun with knowledge. I can't think of anything equivalent to QI on American TV. Too bad all they copy are sitcoms and reality based game shows.

I'm not a fan of women on QI.

>> ^AdrianBlack:

I'm not a fan of women on QI.


I am. Especially with Geordie accent. I guess that makes us enemies until the day one of us dies.

LOL!
That's it...start working on your velvet tennis ball impression.
>> ^DerHasisttot:

>> ^AdrianBlack:
I'm not a fan of women on QI.

I am. Especially with Geordie accent. I guess that makes us enemies until the day one of us dies.

>> ^AdrianBlack:

I'm not a fan of women on QI.


http://videosift.com/video/Why-aren-t-there-more-women-on-QI

>> ^AdrianBlack:

LOL!
That's it...start working on your velvet tennis ball impression.
>> ^DerHasisttot:
>> ^AdrianBlack:
I'm not a fan of women on QI.

I am. Especially with Geordie accent. I guess that makes us enemies until the day one of us dies.



*phluff*

I love johnny vegas when he's not drunk.

Sarah Millican is cute

Like so much of QI, it seems like they're being intellectually sloppy. They offer some evidence that bees are easier to TRAIN, but do they actually detect smells at lower concentrations? It seems unlikely to me. A dog simply has a much, much larger sensor than a bee.

Owww!

>> ^rychan:

Like so much of QI, it seems like they're being intellectually sloppy. They offer some evidence that bees are easier to TRAIN, but do they actually detect smells at lower concentrations? It seems unlikely to me. A dog simply has a much, much larger sensor than a bee.


Inscentinel claim that their studies show the bees to be at least as good as sniffer dogs:

http://www.inscentinel.com/InscentinelLtd/Pages/technology.html

> For most compounds bees are much more sensitive than humans, and our studies indicate that they are at least as good as sniffer dogs. They can for instance detect parts per trillion concentrations of explosive material such as TNT

Note also that they don't just use a single bee -- they have a group of them in cassettes in the detector boxes.

Wikipedia has some interesting information here about other things that wasps and bees have been used to detect (e.g. certain cancers, by smelling breath):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trained_hymenoptera