Episode Details

Today you’ll learn about a robot that can resurrect bees from near death, how oral transmission shapes the way music evolves, and the huge power of the tiny cranberry to stave off urinary tract infections. 

Robotic Beehive  

• “Robotic Beehive Resuscitates Honeybee Colony from Fatal Winter Cold.” by Abigail Eisenstadt. 2023. 
  • https://www.aaas.org/news/robotic-beehive-resuscitates-honeybee-colony-fatal-winter-cold
• “Are honeybees dying off? It depends on whom you ask.” by Stephanie Sigafoos & Molly Bilinski. 2021. 
  • https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-science-bees-4539519fb935484e017861a0c0cec79a

Oral Transmission

• “New Research Shows How Cultural Transmission Shapes the Evolution of Music.” n.a. 2023. 
  • https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-03-22-new-research-shows-how-cultural-transmission-shapes-evolution-music
• “Large-scale iterated singing experiments reveal oral transmission mechanisms underlying music evolution.” by Manuel Anglada-Tort, et al. 2023. 
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982223002439

Cranberry Juice & UTIs 

• “A myth no more: Cranberry products can prevent urinary tract infections for women.” n.a. 2023. 
  • https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/a-myth-no-more-cranberry-products-can-prevent-urinary-tract-infections-for-women
• “Urinary tract infection (UTI).” Mayo Clinic. 2022. 
  • https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/urinary-tract-infection/symptoms-causes/syc-20353447
• “Understanding UTIs Across the Lifespan.” n.a. 2016. 
  • https://www.urologyhealth.org/healthy-living/urologyhealth-extra/magazine-archives/summer-2016/understanding-utis-across-the-lifespan