Honeybees are smrt
Australians believe bees are so important that they built the bees their very own flight facility, curiously named the All-Weather Bee Flight Facility. The cows in India don’t even have their own flight facility. At that flight facility is where scientists from the Australian National University and Würzburg University in Germany have recently discovered something that surely has the potential to net them a Nobel prize; Honeybees have an amazing short term memory. They don’t seem to be smart enough though to realize that their so-called flight facility is merely a large climate-controlled greenhouse where scientists just use them to do research. In this case they had the bees flying through patterned tunnels after which they gave them a chance to pick a matching chamber. Their paycheck? Nothing if they didn’t pick the right chamber, but when they did–even Bill gates’ daughters would be envious–they got to taste some sugar water. If humans got sent spelunking through patterned tunnels for research, they could pick the wrong tunnel all they want, but they would still get payed a rhinoceros’ weight in gold. With such extraordinary wages I wonder if any of those scientists ever fear that the bees might revolt, kill them, and perform their own tests on wild marsupials. Or worse; they could pick the wrong chambers on purpose rendering the scientists’ valuable research results completely useless. I’m not saying the research was very useful to begin with, but someone obviously thought it was. Someone felt it more important to support the abuse of these bees–I’m surprised Greenpeace hasn’t organized a big campaign to stop this madness yet–, rather than to spend it on charity, research on Aids, or even better, a make over for Martha Stewart. What is it about this discovery that makes it so important?
I liked your journal a lot. Nice job using the humor techniques like funny words (spelunking) and exaggeration (cows in India). Overall great work.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 12/05 at 01:05 AMBrilliant! I love the short term memory bit, it was highly creative. Overall the paper was very creative thanks for sharing that one!
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