@#1

Exactly what I was thinking. I don't think people would be do daring is a high speed eurostar came through there at 180 mph.

@#6

Agreed. I'd like to see them armchair QB Newtonian physics. Why is it that Neuroscience is always seen as this squishy soft science where things are full of magic and powered by fairy dust?

And wait. the Fruit Fly? I thought it was supposed to be a bunch of lobsters, eh?

#2.

I think you got it right. I was reading #1 and thinking that there are car bomb attacks on military checkpoints all the time and they get the same treatment as attacks on markets for the most part.

unicorn chaser?

#2 : damn. the internet is weird.

#3.

I don't know about you, but I don't pay extra for every MB of information I download. And with cost/MBPS going down I'm not exaclty sure the cost is getting shifted to me, the consumer.

Yes I'm on comcast. Yes my torrents work (although they are a little slow...)

#17 : You're right, of course. If I had looked at Straight Dope I would have seen that they do mention that it is one species of bee, the European Honeybee. I had just assumed that lowlights had cited his source correctly, but he didn't say "species", he said "variety". There's a big difference.

So I should not have dismissed the source, nor made the assumption that it was being reported accurately here.

#4 :

don't go throwing that quote around. There's a good chance Einstein didn't ever say it. http://www.snopes.com/quotes/einstein/bees.asp

#2 :

It's not just one kind of bee vanishing. It's the 3 main kinds of European bees (Italian, German and French). At this point the vast majority of bees in the US and EU are these kinds. There's very few wild bees left, so this is a BIG DEAL.

so your site, Straight Dope, looks pretty pathetic to me if that's the kind of information they're giving you.

MattyMatt : During the winter the bee colonies hibernate so it's a lot harder to detect a die off since you don't want to open up the hives when it's so cold. We'll see how many died off in a couple months time when spring shows up.

Also, from what I remember we did discover the cause. It was an Israeli virus that was given to Australian bees. in 2003 the Europe and American bee import laws were relaxed and the infected Australian bees were brought over here and met with our European (yes, there are European been in America) bees who couldn't handle the disease.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12605-virus-blamed-for-mysterious-disappearance-of-us-bees.html

and no breaking Godwin's law.

I wonder how this affects AP images. Or any photographer trying to sell works that just happen to have a Ford car in it.