Episode notes
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why bees are secretly incredibly fascinating.
Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.
LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:
- Katie Goldin on Bluesky
- @ProBirdRights on Bluesky
- ‘Creature Feature’ podcast (iHeartRadio)
- When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)
RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
- native-land.ca
- U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
- The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
- “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
- Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)
- Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)
RESEARCH SOURCES:
- BugInfo: Wasps, Ants, and Bees — Hymenoptera (The Smithsonian)
- Paper Wasps, Yellowjackets and Other Stinging Wasps (Oklahoma State University Extension)
- Actually, All Bees Come From an Ancient Supercontinent Called Gondwana (Popular Mechanics)
- Why do honeybees die when they sting? (PBS)
- Diseases & Conditions: Bee Sting (Cleveland Clinic)
- Carpenter Bees (University Of Kentucky Department of Entomology)
- The blue beauty with an impressive coat of fuzz (Australian Geographic)
- 5.5 million bees found beneath New York State cemetery. It’s one of the largest populations ever recorded (BBC Discover Wildlife Magazine)
- Why Vulture Bees Prefer Rotting Flesh Over Pollen (Smithsonian Magazine)
- “Vulture bees” evolved a taste for flesh—and their microbiomes reflect that (Ars Technica)
- Bee gold: Honey as a superfood (Knowable Magazine)
- FAQ: Do bees feed on both nectar and pollen? (U.S. Geological Survey)
- Drop by Drop: How Honey Happens (Chicago Botanic Garden)
- 99% Invisible: “On Beeing” — this is the podcast episode Alex mentioned enjoying. It’s a set of stories about farmers using and rotating honeybee hives in their process of cultivating crops.
- website of artist Tomas Libertiny
- As honeybees die off again, some bee enthusiasts want to give mason bees a chance (NPR)
- News: Deciphering the Mystery of Bee Flight (Caltech)
- Ask A Biologist: What’s All the Buzz—How Do Bees Fly? (Arizona State University)
- ‘She’s opening the bees!’ US beekeeper jailed for trying to save friend from eviction (The Guardian)
- Woman Gets Jail After Unleashing Swarm of Bees During an Eviction (The New York Times)
- A Scientist Tried to Breed Hybrid Super Bees. Some Escaped and Spawned a Killer. (Popular Mechanics)
- Experience: my house was taken over by 70,000 bees (The Guardian)
- The Language of the Bees: An Interview with Hugh Raffles (Cabinet Magazine)
- The Bee Dance Debate (JStor Daily)
- Startled honeybees give a little ‘whoop’ (BBC Discover Wildlife Magazine)
- Honeybees let out a ‘whoop’ when they bump into each other (New Scientist Magazine)
- The Secret Life of Bees: The world’s leading expert on bee behavior discovers the secrets of decision-making in a swarm (Smithsonian Magazine)
- News Releases: Sandia, University of Montana researchers try training bees to find buried landmines (Sandia National Laboratories)
- Specially-Trained Honeybees Forage for Land Mines (Smithsonian Magazine)
- How bees and drones team up to find landmines (BBC News)
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Caffeine
- YouTube post of funny Bee Movie edit: “The Entire Bee Movie but every time it says bee it speeds up by 15%”
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A weekly podcast about the history, science, lore and surprises that make everyday things secretly incredibly fascinating. Hosted by comedy writer, emoji creator, and ‘Jeopardy!‘ champion Alex Schmidt. Join Alex & his co-host Katie Goldin for a joyful deep dive into seeing the world a whole new way!
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