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Did Scientists Just Solve the Bee Collapse Mystery?
- dang 12y agoPreviously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7723456 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7723456, but this article does add some context.
- seandougall 12y ago> a grain of table salt weighs 64,800 micrograms Um... citation needed. Setting aside the issue of measuring weight in units of mass, where are these people getting their mega-salt? (ETA: Source appears to be Yahoo! Answers, as far as I can tell. Clearly reputable.)
- maxerickson 12y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_(unit) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_(unit) So the interesting question is whether the confusion was introduced by deception or not.
- slacker22 12y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
- mantrax5 12y agoWe're solving the bee collapse mystery on average about 2.31265 times a day now. I'm starting to fear that we're solving it so well, we're gonna produce the opposite effect - bee explosion. And now just think about this for a second - a bee explosion. Is this really a better problem to have, seriously? My scientific opinion is that some problems are just not meant to be solved. Instead, we should look into quadcopter beebots.
- advisedwang 12y agoAs far as I can see the only reason colony collapse is seen as a mystery is because companies selling pesticides issue press releases saying so that get spit out verbatim by journalists.