Daily Archives: June 7, 2024

Tuesday, June 18, 6:45 pm – 8:00 pm Eastern – Abuzz About Bees, Online

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Bees are part of the biodiversity on which we all depend for our survival, but some of their activity has been unexplainable—until now. Discover how small observations led to big breakthroughs revealing the secrets behind puzzling honey bee behavior.

Cornell University biology professor Thomas D. Seeley provides an up-close account of how he and his colleagues solved mysteries about honey bee nature. In deciphering their communicative movements, Seeley reveals insights into these remarkably intelligent insects.His research illuminates how worker bees function as scouts to choose a home site for their colony, furnish their home with beeswax combs, and stock it with brood and food while keeping tens of thousands of colony inhabitants warm and defended from intruders. This Smithsonian Associates lecture takes place on Zoom on June 18 at 6:45 pm. $20 for Smithsonian Associates members, $25 for nonmembers. Register at https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/abuzz-about-bees

Seeley’s latest book is Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners: 20 Mysteries of Honey Bee Behavior Solved

Tuesday, June 11, 7:00 pm – Inundation District

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Join the Museum of Science Boston on June 11 at 7 for a special screening of Inundation District in the Mugar Omni Theater. In time of rising seas and intensifying storms, one of the world’s wealthiest, most highly educated cities made a fateful decision to spend billions of dollars erecting a new district along its coast – on landfill, at sea level.

Unlike other places imperiled by climate change, this neighborhood of glass towers housing some of the world’s largest companies was built well after scientists began warning of the threats, including many at its renowned universities. 

The city, which already has more high tide flooding than nearly any other in the United States, called its new quarter the Innovation District. But with seas rising inexorably, and at an accelerating rate, others are calling the neighborhood by a different name: Inundation District.

The film, a production by The Boston Globe, premiered in the fall of 2023 as the closing night film of the GlobeDocs Film Festival. See more about the film here.  Free with pre-registration at www.mos.org

This special film screening is part of the Museum’s Year of the Earthshot, an exploration of the climate solutions and the actions we can take now to live sustainably on Earth.