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Homing instinct of bees surprises

Bumblebees can navigate their way home over distances of up to 13km (eight miles), a UK research team has shown.

The study also found only worker bees seemed to have this homing ability.

Bees pollinate flowering plants and therefore play a crucial role in food webs, but numbers of the insect in Britain have been declining recently.

The team said the homing research would inform conservation strategies that sought to adapt landscapes to create optimum habitats for bees.

As someone who impulsively finds north and south wherever I go and must meticulously map out all road trips, I don’t just appreciate the workers bee’s ability I envy it a little. If I would have been in charge of intelligently designing humans I think I would have included a built in compass at the very least.

Hume referred to GOP-led House of Representatives as “we” 

Summary: On Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume used the pronoun “we” in reference to the Republican-led House of Representatives, which recently passed a bill to cut the estate tax. Hume said: “We’ve passed” a measure that would eliminate the tax “for nearly everybody,” but that the measure is “stuck in the Senate.”

Brit isn’t just another pretty face in broadcast news, he is also the news director and I give him credit for his unabashed bias in reporting. I hope that the RNC at least sends him some free baseball tickets or fruitcake to compensate him for his work on their behalf.