It’s Monday, plus International Day of Peace and World Gratitude Day. Birthdays today: H.G. Wells, Leonard Cohen, Bill Murray. The swapmeet is still on, and the freebiemeet is coming up on Saturday. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m still groggy from oversleeping, in Kenzo Air.
Reminder: 9/25 is National Comic Book Day…
The findings show that honeybees given food scented with odors that mimicked sunflowers supported a significant increase in sunflower crop production.
"We show that it's possible to condition honeybees to a rewarded odor inside the colony, and this experience modifies the bees' odor-guided behaviors later," says Walter Farina of Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. "The most surprising and relevant result is that the foraging preferences for the target crop are so prolonged and intensive that it promoted significant increases in the crop yields."
— Read more in Scientists 'scent train' honeybees to boost sunflowers' seed production at Science Daily.
Saturday is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and we’re marking the occasion with our usual open thread poll. (But first, a moment of silence, please, for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died of cancer yesterday.)
Talk about anything you like — the fragrance you’re wearing today, your most-pirate-ish fragrance, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
London-based niche line Gallivant will launch Bukhara, the latest in their series of “urban exploration” fragrances, later this month…
