Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 27, 2022

How can they figure that out about bees? Did they get them to play with a calculator?

Or was it asking them what is buzz plus buzz?

How’s that Chinese son doing now ten years later? If working at a Chinese equivalent to Game Stop, I think the father would disapprove.

Bee healthy! Eat your Honey!

Killer bees give me the hives.

One bee learns math and then the rest have to copy him. Talk about the hive mind…

If a bee want’s you to improve his grade, that might be cheap insurance.

Might be good at math, but bees didn’t get too far in the alphabet.

They can do basic math, many of them also listen to music. Sting seems to be the favorite of many of them.

Take care, may delusional millennial Todd “What Is This Large Thing Under My Feet Is That The Planet Everyone Is Talking About” Lostord be with you, and gesundheit.

No surprise. There’s been spelling bees for a long time.

so scientist are giving bees math tests now?

To all millennials, get a job, don’t waste money on things you cannot afford, save up a down payment, BUY A HOME! That’s the way it has always been and the way it always WILL be.

We know this about bees… how?!?

What kind of math problem are you working on? “Nut-in, Honey!”

They figure the A-List celebrity will pick up the check.

That implies we understand the concept of zero. How certain are we?

I don’t understand “online gaming” and I hope I never will.

Yeah, they multiply…

Here is what I found regarding bees from Science.org:

Researchers trained 10 bees to identify the smaller of two numbers. Across a series of trials, they showed the insects two different pictures displaying a few black shapes on a white background. If the bees flew to the picture with the smaller number of shapes, they were given delicious sugar water, but if they flew toward the larger number, they were punished with bitter-tasting quinine.

Once the bees had learned to consistently make the correct choice, the researchers gave them a new option: a white background containing no shapes at all. Even though the bees had never seen an empty picture before, 64% of the time they chose this option rather than a picture containing two or three shapes, the authors report today in Science. This suggests that the insects understood that “zero” is less than two or three. And they weren’t just going for the empty picture because it was new and interesting: Another group of bees trained to always choose the larger number tended to pick the nonzero image in this test.

I will defend videogamers generally (though i think the game Grand Theft Auto is unhealthy for people) but as a father, I do enjoy that bit about the dad who hired videogame assassins…I can believe it, yes. However—all three of my videogame playing sons are now adults, one makes a decent living and does good as a teacher; one is a computer security expert making BIG money; one sells yachts (and pilots them to the buyers, as he’s a licensed large boat captain) and makes very good money.

That’s the most 80 looking 30! Letterer needs some handwriting lessons. If that even exist!

No wonder the bees are disappearing. They are being scientifically eliminated.

WHAT does “W.O.W.” mean?