Read #1. Why are the noses broken on Egyptian statutes? (So interesting)
Read #2. The dance language of the honey bee. (Bees are amazing!!)
Social behaviour in bees has a number of advantages. One of the most important of these is the ability to quickly mobilize a large number of foragers to gather floral resources that may only be available for a short period of time. The ability to communicate location with such precision is one of the most interesting behaviors of a very interesting insect.
Read #3. Hot streaks in your career don’t happen by accident.
But Wang’s paper asks us to consider the possibility that many of today’s wanderers are also tomorrow’s superstars, just a few months or years away from their own personal hot streak. Periods of exploration can be like winter farming; nothing is visibly growing, but a subterranean process is at work and will in time yield a bounty.
Read #4. How the eggplant conquered Arab cuisine.
The eggplant had supposedly been described up until the ninth century as having “the color of a scorpion’s abdomen and a taste like its sting.” Physicians viewed it as unhealthy; some even associated it with madness. Ibn Sina believed it caused melancholia, while Abu Bakr Muhammad Zakariyya Razi suggested it could cause pustules in the mouth and inflame the blood.Following Buran’s wedding, however, the eggplant starts to appear in Arabic poetry, where it is regarded with awe rather than contempt.
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