Thursday, October 18, 2007

kill the buzz

did you know that cell phones are interrupting bees' frequencies and causing them to lose their direction back to the hive after collecting pollen, thus causing their mass destruction in certain parts of the world?

2 comments:

Nicholas Dubé said...

Interesting... and sort of disturbing that I've never heard about that before. Do you have link?

hannah said...

i at first heard of this from a fellow student in an environmental and consumer health class, but upon further investigation...
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2007/03/06/millions_of_bees_die_are_electromagnetic_signals_to_blame.htm
or
http://www.earthweek.com/online/ew070420/ew070420f.html
terrible, isn't it?