BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM The human brain contains approximately 86 billion neurons. A honeybee brain contains roughly one million, packed into about one cubic millimeter. That brain, it turns out, can learn to tell human faces apart. The research goes back more than two decades. Across multiple studies, honeybees have been trained to […]
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I was only able to publish two editions of Pook-Emu Bee links last week. Thus, to make amends, I present a rare Sunday edition of the Pook-Emu Bee. For link fans out there, I include many links in my weekly newsletter. See my June 6, 2026 Newsletter for an example. [caption id="attachment_5583" align="aligncenter" width="1008"] I...
When insect populations decline, some people go hungry.
480 hives were minutes away from dying in the hot sun.
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We're still trying to understand how exactly to study bees.
She used bees to assault some people. She didn't assault a bee.
Derma Sciences sells a wound bandage called Medihoney that hospitals use to treat burns and slow-healing sores. The active ingredient is exactly what you'd guess: honey. The same stuff in your pantry pulls water out of damaged tissue and releases trace amounts of hydrogen peroxide, which is why archeologists keep finding pots of it in Egyptian tombs that are still perfectly safe to eat after…
"When she naps, she will put her little antennas down."
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Humidity can temporarily turn metallic sweat bees from blue-green to copper-green.
NYC's Andrew Coté is a fourth-generation beekeeper with a unique twist: he keeps hives on some of the city's most iconic rooftops.
Writer decks usually have e-ink displays, which are nice to read and easy on batteries. But they're mostly monochrome and sometimes sluggish. Enter Bee Write Back, a distraction-free writing machiner with an _OLED_ display. Colors! Rich, deep blacks! And a cute bee logo. — Read the rest
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As its name suggests, National Geographic's new two-part documentary series, "Secrets of the Bees," turns the lens toward one of Earth's most important inhabitants: bees. The series is fascinating, full of interesting information and science about bees, but also replete with exceptional cinematography. The miniseries has many fantastic close-up shots of bees, unlike anything captured…
But they don't seem to get drunk.
In icy burrows, queens can briefly breathe underwater and wait out disaster.
A new paper provides the first statistically derived estimate of bee species richness around the world. But this is about more than bees.