Tuesday, January 06, 2009

BEES LIKE COKE


Munz sent us this fascinating item…
To learn more about the biochemistry of addiction, scientists in Australia dropped liquefied freebase cocaine on bees’ backs, so it entered the circulatory system and brain.
The scientists found that bees react much like humans do: cocaine alters their judgment, stimulates their behavior and makes them exaggeratedly enthusiastic about things that might not otherwise excite them.

The bees however would seem to be cheap dates where coke is concerned. A gram will keep a bee happy for two years. (Click here for more)

The secret word is Buzz

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

How the hell, even in Australia, do you get funding to give cocaine to bees?

WV = sagwor

Anonymous said...

This show up of Colbert's show a day after it was on Doc40.