MetaFilter posts tagged with hive

Wikipedia Live Monitor

stbalbach — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:52:32 -0800

Wikipedia Live Monitor is an experimental site that scans Wikipedia edits real-time searching for frenzied editing sessions. Matches are compared with "plausibility checks" on Facebook, Google etc.. to see if there is something in the news, thus quickly pinpointing unexpected events.

The honey that melts in your mouth, not in your hand

Wordshore — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 09:28:07 -0800

What to do when your bees develop a taste for the residue of the confectionary process, with some rather visible side effects. This kind of story is also the dream of every punning newspaper sub-editor.

Buzzing about network graphs

Blazecock Pileon — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 02:07:51 -0800

A hive plot (slides) is a beautiful and compelling way to visualize multiple, complex networks, without resorting to "hairball" graphs that are often difficult to qualitatively compare and contrast. Hive plots were conceived by Martin Krzywinski, the primary author of the Circos software package, used to represent genomic and other data that render well in circular form. To make your own hive plots, take a look at Krzywinski's linnet library, or if you like R, there's HiveR.

Legendary Threads and Hive Minds

sidr — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:09:53 -0800

Epic threads gathered from the nether reaches of the Internet.: www.LegendaryThread.com. The Mefi Wiki - a reordered Mefi - has a subset of legendary threads and things the hive mind has said. Comment Fables, for example. Mefi has all these mirrors to look at itself: ShadowyBackAlley. There are others: LegendaryThreads.net They seem interesting internet social phenomena. Do you know any more similar legendary thread sites? Do link!

Smells Like Spartacus

The Whelk — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:49:06 -0800

The Uprising Of The Ants: "Alexandra Achenbach and Susanne Foitzik from Ludwig Maximillians Universty in Munich found that some of the kidnapped workers don't bow to the whims of their new queen. Once they have matured, they start killing the pupae of their captors, destroying as many as two-thirds of the colony's brood. "

ANTS in Space

Kronos_to_Earth — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:22:09 -0800

The Autonomous NanoTechnology Swarm (ANTS) "...is a generic mission architecture consisting of miniaturized, autonomous, self-similar, reconfigurable, addressable components forming structures. The components/structures have wide spatial distribution and multi-level organization. This ‘swarm’ behavior is inspired by the success of social insect colonies...." ANTS may one day teem through the solar system.... (last two links large QT files) There's quite a number of video clips on the site, collected here.

Naked hive rats!

sotonohito — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:08:45 -0800

Eusociality - its what bees, ants, and all those other insects that divide into workers, drones, and queens do. But naked mole rats (which are not related to moles or rats) are one of only two mammal species that follow the same pattern, with their cousins Damaraland mole rats as the only other eusocial mammals. They're also nearly cold blooded, impervious to pain, and feed their young on their own feces from the time they're a month old until they can eat the giant tubers that make up most of their diet.

Voice of the Hive

illuminatus — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:09:57 -0800

Voice of the Hive is a collection of informative and well-written stories about honeybees. Half of the tales are told from a human beekeeper's perspective, and are filled with valuable knowledge for potential hobbyists. The other half are compelling vignettes of a single bee's life -- widely diverse and compelling, told from each individual bee's perspective. The two elements come together to paint a fascinating picture of this noble insect's existence.

taz — Sun, 06 Oct 2002 10:32:29 -0800

How would it be to be a bee? Einstein has been quoted as saying that if the bee were to suddenly disappear, mankind would survive only another four years. So, make a bow to your insect overlords, and visit this site by a neuroscientist researching bee vision to experience first-hand how a bee sees. The B-EYE software allows you to set various parameters to see how a bee would view selected images, including Einstein himself. Or test your bee communication skills at Nova's "Dances with Bees" page, where you watch the dance of a hive mate and then try to locate the nectar source that he's mapping out. If you're still not impressed, consider that bees possess higher cognitive functions, including the ability for abstract thought. Finally, find out why nice bees don't always finish last in a look at the guerrilla tactics wielded against the dreaded "killer bee" by mild-mannered Cape honeybees.