Hi folks. This is Michael, the owner of this group. I've done a lot to grow this group over the years... I hope everyone is enjoying it. I've started...
Sundance Channel wants YOUR green ideas ... What's YOUR big idea to make the world a cleaner, greener place? Sundance Channel wants to know with the What's the...
Not sure any great ideas would be sponsored by Lexus. What do you think? How about getting rid of all gas powered vehicles and returning to an agrarian...
NYT - Almost Human, and Sometimes Smarter http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/science/17chimp.html? pagewanted=1&_r=2&ref=science Lisa Wilcox wilcoxe@... ...
Mobile phones blamed for mass bee desertion http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21591384-401,00.html Lisa Wilcox wilcoxe@... Mail: 19093 S Beavercreek...
Apologies if you seen this before: How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics Lisa Wilcox wilcoxe@... Mail: 19093 S Beavercreek...
Thanks Lisa. my wife and I just cancelled our cell phones. Now we have to smash them and send the pieces back to Samsung. ... Peace, Philip M. Kauffman ...
Goodness! I admire your commitment. I was going to wait for a little peer review, maybe some double-blind attempts to replicate, myself. ;-) ... Lisa Wilcox ...
My brain, the bees brain, driver's on the road more dangerous talking than drinking, the GPS signals, the invasion of basic privacy. Good enough for me! On...
Bees Vanish, and Scientists Race for Reasons http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/science/24bees.html? _r=2&ref=science&oref=slogin&oref=slogin A somewhat more...
Thanks Lisa, That was great information. I heard about the bee decline on the morning news last week. The reporter left the impression that these cell phone...
It's far from conclusive. We have a guy who left a phone near a hive and said the bees didn't return to it. Quite a leap from there to "using cell phones is...
Barbara, Cell phones are trendy, and now more than ever they are cheap. A couple of years ago, they were not affordable to the average person. They were a...
I think it's unlikely that cell phone use increased so dramatically between the winter of 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 so as to suddenly cause this effect. Cell...
Barbara wrote: It may not even really be the western honeybee anymore because we've been having to bring in Italian bees for years because of the horrendous ...
Hi there, How's everyone doing ? Here are some things I've been thinking about recently: Could it be that any advanced civilization is incapable of evolving by...
Actually, bandwidth for cell phone usage hasn't risen dramatically even with the increase in capacity because digital encoding has become more efficient. ... ...
Barbara, Interesting rebuttal. Thanks for all the links. I agree it was sloppy journalism. But that was just one reporter quoting one keeper. It's hard for a...
'kay, first off...leave the ad hominem crap out of this. I don't, and won't, play that way. No, I've never been stung by a bee, but what the hell does that...
B* 'kay, first off...leave the ad hominem crap out of this. I don't, and won't, play that way. C*** My apologies that it came across as an insult. By...
... <similar_simian@...> wrote: [snip] ... [snip] ... Uhhh, somebody needs to go back to science class. Those cell phones broadcast MHZ in *radio* waves, not...
... That was more crappy journalism...it wasn't cell phones at all, but base units from cordless phones. Barbara Tinkering with civilization's sub-structure......
Hello Tom, "Don't Bee Cruel" or "Ain't Misbeehavin'" or prolly "Beewitched, Bothered and Beewildered." You really crack me up! You're right Tom, I would have...
Whether or not it can be scientifically demonstrated that cell phones threaten the survival of bees, there is nonetheless a -symbolic- truth in the original...
Lisa, that is very Buddhist of you! A couple of comments from me. One, most effects have multiple causes, sometimes it's the combination of these rather than...
Our State Apiarist is a friend of mine. His professional opinion is that the worldwide decline in bee population has more than one cause, but he says one key...
... I would say we are still subject to natural selection. We live in different environments than our ancestors though, so we have different selection...