Straight from the horse's mouth about bees & cellphones: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003694330_beerapture0 5.html
"A small German study looking at a specific type of cordless phone and homing systems of bees exploded over the Internet and late-night television shows. It morphed into erroneous reports blaming cellphones for the honeybee die-off, which scientists are calling colony-collapse disorder, or CCD. The scientist who wrote the paper, Stefan Kimmel, emphasized there is "no link between our tiny little study and the CCD-phenomenon ... anything else said or written is a lie."" Robert Jacoby Reference/Electronic Services Librarian University of Toledo LaValley Law Library -----Original Message----- From: Computer Guys Announcements and Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of b_s-wilk Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 12:51 AM To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Bees on the Beeb > More on bees and cellphones: on the BBC News Hour, a discussion about > colony collapse syndrome and cellphones. One of the interviewees was > some kind of officer of Vodaphone, and he didn't think that > cellphones were involved. (Quelle surprise.) > > Tomorrow (Thursday): more bees on WAMU, on the Diane Rehm show (10:00 > a.m.-noon). I tried to find out whether bees would be discussed on > the 10:00 show or the 11:00, but that information wasn't posted on > the WAMU website. (You can always listen later on the archives > section of the website.) > > Chances are, the subject of bees and cellphones will come up, sooner > or later. I kind of doubt that cellphones were involved--let alone > the sole cause--but who knows? They haven't found a cause yet. > Quite a lot of the food supply depends on bees. I'd kind of miss > food, if it weren't around. I suspect they'll find out that it's a combination of factors: mites, fungus, pesticides, GM crops, electromagnetism. Lots of people have said that electricity, sound, microwaves aren't likely suspects, however, I worked on an experiment many years ago to test whether electromagnetic fields would affect growth patterns of several varieties of moss. The moss within the field grew more than twice as high [6"-10"] as those plants outside the field. However we didn't determine exactly why. Bees may also be affected. Determining exactly how and why bees are affected by environmental factors can be done, but remedies may need significant changes in farm, landscape and forestry practices. I'd miss food, too. Does cacao need bees? Podcast URL for Diane Rehm show is http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&i d=160993127 or http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510071 ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
