Welcome to The Rest is Science. I am Michael Stevens, and this is Field Notes. It is an exploration, expedition diary, where Hannah and I share cool thoughts, objects and discoveries with each other, and from you.

Every week, one of us is going to bring in something to show the other. It's a bit like the rest of sciences version of show and tell.

Yeah, and together we're building up a strange and spectacular library of our favorite items from the world of science.

We also, by the way, would like to add in your questions, your theories, your thought experiments, anything you want to send us in a mailbag.

So send them into us and look, we'll dust off a shelf, a metaphorical shelf.

So later on, I am going to be showing off a book and also a scarf that cannot be cut in half.

Oh.

But first, we're going to go to your questions.

I mean, frankly, what are you doing cutting scarves in half?

Anyway, respect your wardrobe, Michael.

Okay.

Our first discovery, though, doesn't come from Michael.

It comes from you guys.

Here's one from Brian.

Okay, bees, like honeybees, can be trained to recognize simple shapes, colors, odors, and landmarks, and follow instructions

and perform calculations based on a given input. So, can we train bees to simulate a universal

terrain machine? I've also formatted this question as a limerick. Okay, you see why I wanted to read

this one. I'm curious about bits and bees.

I implore you to answer me, please.

If meadows of flowers replace computational powers, will Google start making me sneeze?

Okay.

Thank you, Brian.

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