Electric hive minds

Insect Minds For Human Minds

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Phenophysiological variation of a bee that regulates hive humidity, but not hive temperature.

Seasonal acclimatisation of thermal tolerance, evaporative water loss and metabolic rate, along with regulation of the hive environment, are key ways whereby hive-based social insects mediate climatic challenges throughout the year, but the relative importance of these traits remains poorly understood. Here, we examined seasonal variation in metabolic rate and evaporative water loss of worker b...

Tracking Bees in a Hive

Behavorial research in the study of the organisational structure and communication forms in social insects like the ants and bees has garnered tremendous impetus in recent years [1][2]. Usually, when such an experiment to study these insects is setup, the insects in an observation hive are videotaped. The hours of videotape is then manually studied and hand-labelled. This task of manually track...

Changing minds about electric cars: An empirically grounded agent-based modeling approach

Manuscript under peer review. Do not cite or circulate without authors' permission. Abstract The diffusion of electric vehicles (EVs) is considered an effective policy strategy to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets. For large-scale adoption, however, demand-side oriented policy measures are required, based on consumers' transport needs, values and social norms. We introduce an empirically gr...

The analogy of the hive.