“We discovered that bumblebees can use a combination of colour and spatial relationships in deciding which colour of flower to forage from,” the students wrote in the paper’s abstract. “We also discovered that science is cool and fun because you get to do stuff that no one has ever done before.”

“Dr Neylon thinks it would be far better for all the artefacts of the research process, such as videos, samples, data and images, to be made freely available in an open-access format – hosted either by journal websites or alternatives such as university repositories, individual researchers’ websites or large commercial providers such as Amazon.”

Interactive map of the evolution of heavy metal and associated sub-genres, complete with music clips. Awesome.

via The Society of Torch, Pole and Rope: Faerun After Dark.

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