Yeah. How could 1950's science fiction be so wrong?
cbdevidal · 46m ago
My stupid butt imagined new mutant superpowered insects like the Brain from Pinky and the Brain
alex_suzuki · 2h ago
Nitpick: the article mentions that the bees are tracked with QR Codes, but I find that hard to believe, given the space constraints. In one photo it looks like it is an ArUco marker.
> The protocol used at Fukushima is automated. Each bee is equipped with a 2-mm-wide QR Code which is read by a camera, activating the opening of the maze.
But yeah, doesn't look like a QR code at all, are there possibly different variations of QR codes? Haven't heard about that myself.
blueflow · 1h ago
I can imagine the journalist referring to all Matrix Codes as "QR".
Thorrez · 1h ago
>Although the results of the study have yet to be published, scientists are already reporting a decline in insect cognition in the contaminated area of Fukushima Prefecture.
blackoil · 1h ago
Have we tried increasing cognition by selective breeding. Get mice best at maze to breed 100 descendants and repeat it few times, with varying food supply and survival difficulties.
giraffe_lady · 50m ago
This gets you mice that are better at navigating mazes. The connection between that and general cognition or learning capacity is not as robust as you would hope. Just as likely they simply have better peripheral vision or something.
> The protocol used at Fukushima is automated. Each bee is equipped with a 2-mm-wide QR Code which is read by a camera, activating the opening of the maze.
But yeah, doesn't look like a QR code at all, are there possibly different variations of QR codes? Haven't heard about that myself.
That's actually a fact; there are specific bloodlines prone to cancers.
I'm not sure why but this sentence feels vaguely menacing.