Friday, December 28, 2012

which is so much cheaper than getting everyone together

10 cents per minute, which is so much cheaper than getting everyone together.
Have you heard the news? In just the last ten years or so, the world's honeybee population has taken a huge dive-and nobody seems to know why. I found this out myself recently by reading an article

called "Bees Feel the Sting: The buzz on the worldwide decline in honeybee populations," which appeared as the lead story in the September/October 2011 issue of Science Illustrated. According to

this article, a group of French biologists is attaching tiny microchips to honeybees to track their daily behavior patterns in an effort to learn what's killing them. Suspected causes of the

unprecedented global honeybee dieoff include pests, predators, disease, pesticide sprays, climate change, and mobile phones. One single factor can be enough to do the bees in, as researcher Cedric

Alaux of the Laboratoire Biologie et Protection de l'abeille admitted to Science Illustrated: "We cannot rule out that there is one single factor behind it all that influences the bees in a

negative way."
To identify that factor, the key question we should ask is: What on earth has changed so drastically in the last ten years that would cause billions of honeybees to perish? There has been no

drastic change in nature or the global environment that can adequately explain this occurrence. Honeybee pests and predators have been around for centuries, and although their numbers have

fluctuated, their populations have not exploded recently as far as I know. Diseases have similarly come and gone. Our climate has been changing recently, but not so drastically or in such a short

time period as to explain the mass disappearance of a single insect species.
Thus we can reasonably rule out any natural causes for the world's honeybee population plunge, and it makes sense to look for the culprit among possible artificial (i.e. manmade) causes. Although

pesticide sprays have been in use for decades, their worldwide use has not increased dramatically in recent years; if anything, it has declined as the popularity of organic farming continues to

grow.The only other suspected manmade cause of the honeybees' death is mobile phones (i.e. cell phones)-or, more precisely, the radio waves emitted by cell phones. Here we're on to something,

because in the last ten years the world's use of cellular telephones has exploded dramatically, and an ever-growing global network of transmitter towers established to meet this demand now

continuously fills much of the Earth's air with a thick invisible web of electromagnetic radiation.

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