theorywatch

Thinking about so-called collective intelligence earlier has now reminded me of Cornell scientist Thomas Seeley’s work on decision-making by bees and his terrific book The Wisdom of the Hive. Which in turn, reminds me that there are multiple theories, but no good news anywhere, about colony collapse disorder, not even here in Oklahoma.

If this were a science fiction film, some of us would no doubt be catching on to the metaphor right about now, wouldn’t we? Let’s just hope that someone in our swarm is clever enough to make the right decisions here.

Dear telecom folks, I’m afraid that your mental image of what this one is about is all wrong. See the New Scientist for the “inside” story.

Okay, there’s a theory that’s just begging to be figured out behind this data about fruit flies living longer when they are deprived not only of food, but of the smell of food! If it were humans, I’d suspect that their lifetime just *seemed* longer to them, but that won’t “fly” here, will it?