Source: NobelPrize.org
Today we remember Karl von Frisch (11/20/1886–6/12/1982), the Austrian zoologist who discovered that the bees use dance as a language to communicate the location of food. This theory was greeted with skepticism when first introduced. In addition to studying their dance, Mr. von Frisch also studied their usage of pheromones and their vision. In 1973, Karl von Frisch was one of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Rosslyn Chapel -- Photo by Jeremy Atherton, 2002
“It is a strange and beautiful world.” — Roberto, the Italian tourist in Jim Jarmusch’s quirky 1986 movie, Down by Law
Rosslyn Chapel is a medieval church in Scotland originally made famous because of the beauty of its architecture and storied history. It began experiencing a bit of a renaissance as a tourist attraction recently though when Dan Brown included it as one of the stops in solving the mystery of the Holy Grail and the Knights Templar in The Da Vinci Code.
Perhaps it’s the unprecedented number of visitors that now stream to the chapel that enabled conservators to begin some important and necessary conservation work. So, it was only recently that a stunning and remarkable discovery was made. Hidden in a part of the roof system called the “pinnacles,” which had been dismantled by the stone masons for the first time in hundreds of years while restoring the chapel, there were cavities ideally suited to, and in fact created for (wait for it) … beehives. Read the rest of this entry →
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