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ruffboijuliaburnsides:msfcatlover:neil-gaiman:madsciences:robotsandfrippary:robotlyra:paranoidgemsbok:newshour:What does it take to teach a bee to use tools? A little time, a good teacher and an enticing incentive. Read more here: http://to.pbs.org/2mpRUAzCredit: O.J. Loukola et al., Science (2017)@clockworkrobotic“Friend? Friend push ball? I push ball. I do good.”Bees. Smart enough to push a ball, not smart enough to not be fooled by a stick masquerading as a bee. maybe they know and they’re just being politeOther dimensional beings are undoubtedly amazed at what human beings will accept as human beings too. “But it’s just a stick with a person on it.” #excuse me neil but what the FUCK was that #thanks for that terrifying thought (nooby-banana)I love how my wife is like “and then comes neil with the horror” and I’m just “eh, not really.“ “Really? You’re not freaked out by the idea that any person you interact with could potentially be an extradimensional person on a stick?”“Not really. It would make the world make a lot more sense, to be honest.”Thank you, @neil-gaiman, I think you may have helped long since inoculate me against being at all fazed by the idea that people i meet may be the extradimensional human equivalent of the bee stick. -- source link
#bees#gif#gifs#bugs