The Making of a Bee Documentary
This is what happens if you leave it all to the spellchecker! The quote appeared in a piece by Reuters about the decoding of the honeybee genome in 2006. Apparently, the autocorrect dutifully replaced all mentions of “the queen” with “Queen Elizabeth”, thus informing us about some yet unheard of capacities of the British monarch. [...]
Thanks to @imkerplatform for pointing me to this beautiful infographic by FFunction! (click image to enlarge) The one objection I would have is the title – fortunately, extinction is not yet an issue…
Imker gelten landläufig nicht gerade als Speerspitze bei der Nutzung der moderner Kommunikationstechnologien – sehr zu Unrecht, wie man schnell feststellt, wenn man sich ein bisschen näher mit der Sache beschäftigt! Verena Hagelkruys zum Beispiel kenne ich nur online aus dem Bienenforum, wo sie als eine der Administratorinnen eine ziemlich lebendige Imker-Online-Community betreut. Verena ist [...]
As you can see from the previous posts, there is not much filming going on at the moment and we are back to research and concept – meaning: sitting at our desks. Which is not as bad as it may sound. Actually, it’s quite a luxury not to be rushed through production by merciless deadlines [...]
