TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, November 5, 2012

Greetings Infomaniacs,

The other night I made a very klutzy move. I was reaching for something while working on my laptop and my hand hit my glass of tea and knocked it over, spreading liquid rapidly into every corner of my laptop. Before I could even react, the screen went fuzzy and nothing I could do made any difference.

I took out the battery pack and flipped it over for the night to see if the liquid might all come out, but when I tried to turn on the screen the next morning, all that appeared was a black screen of death.

I took it to our tech gurus at the library, but they couldn't salvage it either. Now, I have no choice but to get a new one. I use it everyday to put together these newsletters as well as do all of my homework.

I'm just thankful I didn't have anything important saved that would be lost to me now! I learned a very valuable lesson. Keep my drink far, far away from my workspace!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."

HINT: (1918-2001), U.S. businesswoman and founder of a well-known cosmetics company.


RANDOM TIDBITS
Between 20,000 and 60,000 bees live in a single hive. The queen bee lays 1,500 eggs a day and lives for up to 2 years. The drone, whose only job it is to mate with the queen bee, has a lifespan of around 24 days - they have no stinger. Worker bees - all sterile females - usually work themselves to death within 40 days in summer, collecting pollen and nectar. Worker bees fly up to 14km (9 miles) to find pollen and nectar, flying at 24km/h (15 mph).

A worker bee communicates her floral findings by performing a dance on the honeycomb. The orientation of her movements and the frequency of her vibrations indicate the direction and distance of the flowers.

Flowers are pollinated mostly by bees; up to one third of all plant pollination on earth are by bees. In short, this means that one in every three spoons of food you put in your mouth was a direct result of the work done by bees.

Bees do not have ears, but they have an excellent sense of smell with chemoreceptors in their antennae. Bees see colors differently than we do. They are insensitive to red but detects ultraviolet light which is invisible to us.

The worker bees defend the hive. The muscular barbed stinger quickly saw into the skin of the invader and the venom pouch begins to contract rhythmically to pump venom into the intruder.

Bees can be used to detect landmines. Tiny radio plates the size of a rice grain will be attached to honey bees to detect antipersonnel landmines, of which there are about 100 million in 70 war-torn countries. The tiny radio plates are engraved with serial numbers to keep track of the bees, which are being conditioned to develop a preference in addition to nectar, in this case TNT, or any other material that releases metamphenamine. Special spectrometers that can "smell" TNT are placed in movable beehives to indicate landmines in specific areas. Bees that "smell" of explosives can then be tracked to the landmine. The bees won't detonate the landmines.


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*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***
You may praise your good fortune and curse all you hate,
Yet I rule all your chaos and gamble your fate.
By some I'm avoided by others I'm game,
Called by fat or slim, my meanings the same.
What am I?

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."

ANSWER: Mary Kay Ash.

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