A combination of a wide variety of herbicides, pesticides and fungicides killing off the bees? Who'd have thunk?

Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought

By Todd Woody @ greenwombat 12 hours ago


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Rosh Hashanah begins this evening. To all who observe it, may you have a good and sweet new year.

It's a new moon tonight, which seems appropriate to me.

I was thinking about Newness, and the need for clearing out old patterns to make way for the new. Stuff that came up (in no particular order):

• I began a new course of Kundalini Yoga last weekend ( Read more... )

I've been "hermiting" for the past few weeks. It happens when I'm stressed, unwell, and down - I withdraw.

It's as if there's too much stimulation to cope with and I simply disconnect.

The problem with that is that:

a) I feel guilty about withdrawing- and that becomes a source of stress and anxiety, and
b) Once I've begun recovering, it becomes ( Read more... )

14 July 2010 Last updated at 12:20 Plants 'can think and remember'
By Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC News
Plants are able to "remember" and "react" to information contained in light, according to researchers.

Plants, scientists say, transmit ( Read more... )