Researchers Added QR Codes To Bees To Figure Out What They Did All Day

from Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson · host Brady Carlson

We’re learning more about how bees do what they do, and it’s thanks to a new study from Penn State that used bee-friendly QR codes. Plus: today in 1957, TIME Magazine reported on a newspaper in Ontario that put typos in the copy on purpose. Scientists Strapped QR Codes Onto Thousands of Bees to Learn How Far They Actually Fly (Gizmodo) Miscellany, Jan. 28, 1957 (TIME) Build some buzz with us, as a backer on Patreon

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