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Think about a honeybee as she walks around inside the hive. If a cold wind hits the hive, she’ll shiver to generate heat and, in the process, help to warm the nearby brood. She has no idea that hundreds of workers in other parts of the hive are doing the same thing at the same time to the benefit of the next generation.
“A honeybee never sees the big picture any more than you or I do,” says Thomas Seeley, the bee expert. “None of us knows what society as a whole needs, but we look around and say, oh, they need someone to volunteer at school, or mow the church lawn, or help in a political campaign.”
If you’re looking for a role model in a world of complexity, you could do worse than to imitate a bee.
About the Authors
Virginia Morell is the author of the critically acclaimed
Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind’s Beginnings
. A longtime contributor to
National Geographic
and correspondent for the journal
Science
, Morell writes frequently on animal behavior. Her forthcoming
Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures
will be published in 2013.
Mary Roach is the author of the
New York Times
best sellers
Packing for Mars, Stiff, Bonk
, and
Spook. Packing for Mars
is a
New York Times
Editor’s Choice and was chosen as the San Francisco 2011 One City, One Book selection.
Stiff
has been translated into 22 languages, and
Spook
was a
New York Times
Notable Book. In addition to
National Geographic
, Roach has written for
Wired, New Scientist
, the
New York Times Book Review
, and
Outside
. She is a member of the Mars Institute’s Advisory Board, the guest editor of the 2011
Best American Science and Nature Writing
, and a winner of the American Engineering Societies’ Engineering Journalism Award, in a category for which, let’s be honest, she was the sole entrant. More at www.maryroach.net .
Peter Miller is a senior editor at
National Geographic
and has served as a writer and editor at the magazine for more than 25 years. He lives in Reston, Virginia, with his wife. To learn more about swarm theory, read his book,
The Smart Swarm: How Understanding Flocks, Schools, and Colonies Can Make Us Better at Communicating, Decision Making, and Getting Things Done
.
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Think about a honeybee as she walks around inside the hive. If a cold wind hits the hive, she’ll shiver to generate heat and, in the process, help to warm the nearby brood. She has no idea that hundreds of workers in other parts of the hive are doing the same thing at the same time to the benefit of the next generation.
“A honeybee never sees the big picture any more than you or I do,” says Thomas Seeley, the bee expert. “None of us knows what society as a whole needs, but we look around and say, oh, they need someone to volunteer at school, or mow the church lawn, or help in a political campaign.”
If you’re looking for a role model in a world of complexity, you could do worse than to imitate a bee.
About the Authors
Virginia Morell is the author of the critically acclaimed
Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind’s Beginnings
. A longtime contributor to
National Geographic
and correspondent for the journal
Science
, Morell writes frequently on animal behavior. Her forthcoming
Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures
will be published in 2013.
Mary Roach is the author of the
New York Times
best sellers
Packing for Mars, Stiff, Bonk
, and
Spook. Packing for Mars
is a
New York Times
Editor’s Choice and was chosen as the San Francisco 2011 One City, One Book selection.
Stiff
has been translated into 22 languages, and
Spook
was a
New York Times
Notable Book. In addition to
National Geographic
, Roach has written for
Wired, New Scientist
, the
New York Times Book Review
, and
Outside
. She is a member of the Mars Institute’s Advisory Board, the guest editor of the 2011
Best American Science and Nature Writing
, and a winner of the American Engineering Societies’ Engineering Journalism Award, in a category for which, let’s be honest, she was the sole entrant. More at www.maryroach.net .
Peter Miller is a senior editor at
National Geographic
and has served as a writer and editor at the magazine for more than 25 years. He lives in Reston, Virginia, with his wife. To learn more about swarm theory, read his book,
The Smart Swarm: How Understanding Flocks, Schools, and Colonies Can Make Us Better at Communicating, Decision Making, and Getting Things Done
.
Discover More NG Shorts
Quick Takes on Hot Topics
for Today’s Busy Ebook Readers
AVAILABLE WHEREVER EBOOKS ARE SOLD
Find us on Facebook.com/NatGeoBooks
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