Botany of Desire

Language is often metaphorical. To understand what another individual means to say it is therefore often necessary to be able to see from another’s perspective. This requires empathy and fantasy. In  the wounderful documentary, The Botany of Desire, from 2009, we get a good example of what it may mean to see from the perspective […]

Waggle Dance

Waggle dance is a term used in beekeeping and ethology for a particular figure-eight dance of the honey bee. By performing this dance, successful foragers can share, with other members of the colony, information about the direction and distance to patches of flowers yielding nectar and pollen, to water sources, or to new nest-site locations […]