Loving Your Job May Lead to Unethical Behavior, Bumblebees Bite Plants to Make Them Bloom, and Jupiter’s Moons Formed from Specks of Dust

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🗓️ 30 June 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Learn about how bumblebees bite plants to make them bloom early; why loving your job too much could lead to unethical behavior; and how Jupiter’s largest moons Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto each built themselves up from a single grain of dust.

When pollen is scarce, bumblebees bite plants to force them to flower by Cameron Duke

Daley, J. (2020, May 21). Bumblebees Bite Plants to Force Them to Flower (Seriously). Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bumblebees-bite-plants-to-force-them-to-flower-seriously/
Miller-Rushing, A. J., Høye, T. T., Inouye, D. W., & Post, E. (2010). The effects of phenological mismatches on demography. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 365(1555), 3177–3186. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0148
Pashalidou, F. G., Lambert, H., Peybernes, T., Mescher, M. C., & De Moraes, C. M. (2020). Bumble bees damage plant leaves and accelerate flower production when pollen is scarce. Science, 368(6493), 881–884. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay0496
When plant pollen scarce, bumblebees biting leaves causes flowers to bloom early. (n.d.). EurekAlert! Retrieved May 27, 2020, from https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-05/aaft-wpp051820.php

Loving your job too much might lead to unethical behavior by Kelsey Donk

The dark side of job engagement. (2019, July 9). The Behaviorist. https://www.behaviorist.biz/oh-behave-a-blog/job-engagement
When Does Work Engagement Lead to Harmful Outcomes? (2019, June 8). Ioatwork.com. https://www.ioatwork.com/does-work-engagement-lead-to-harmful-outcomes/
Wang, L., Law, K. S., Zhang, M. J., Li, Y. N., & Liang, Y. (2019). It’s mine! Psychological ownership of one’s job explains positive and negative workplace outcomes of job engagement. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104(2), 229–246. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000337

Jupiter's largest moons each built themselves up from a single grain of dust by Grant Currin

Naone, E. (2020, May 18). Jupiter’s Largest Moons Might Have Formed From Dust. Discover Magazine; Discover Magazine. https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/astronomers-re-create-the-formation-of-jupiters-galilean-moons
In Depth | Jupiter Moons – NASA Solar System Exploration. (2019, December 19). NASA Solar System Exploration. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/jupiter-moons/in-depth/
Batygin, K., & Morbidelli, A. (2020). Formation of Giant Planet Satellites. The Astrophysical Journal, 894(2), 143. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8937

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from
0:04.8	Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn how
0:08.9	Bumblebee's bite plants to make them bloom early, why loving your job too much could lead to unethical behavior,
0:16.0	and how Jupiter's largest moons each built themselves up from a single grain of dust.
0:21.2	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:23.0	When bumblebees are searching for food and flowers haven't bloomed yet, it's no fuzz off their
0:28.3	back. That's because bumblebees have evolved a really cool trick. They can force flowers to bloom by biting them.
0:36.0	So bees and the flowers they pollinate have a symbiotic relationship.
0:40.0	In other words, they can't live without each other.
0:43.7	This relationship is all about timing, which is something that's becoming more difficult for many
0:48.4	species as the climate changes.
0:51.0	As springtime temperatures arrive earlier and earlier, bees come out of hibernation before the flowers bloom, and their whole system ends up out of sink.
1:00.0	Basically, they wake up in a world without food.
1:03.0	Scientists call this a phenological mismatch,
1:06.0	and it's something many animals don't seem to have a good time dealing with.
1:10.0	But it turns out that the bees have a surprising work around for this.
1:15.0	European researchers first spotted it by accident.
1:18.0	They were observing bees and enclosures for an unrelated experiment
1:22.0	when they noticed the bees chewing on leaves.
1:25.0	That made them curious, so they decided to place pollen-deprived bees in new enclosures,
1:30.2	with unbloomed tomato and mustard plants. Sure enough, the pollen-starved bees chewed tiny holes in the leaves of each plant.
1:38.0	And those bee-damaged plants bloomed much earlier than undamaged plants.
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