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Friday math movie - Dancing Honeybee Using Vector Calculus to Communicate

Posted in Math movies, Mathematics on 4 Jan 2008.
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This week’s movie shows how honeybees communicate the distance and direction of a food source to their nestmates.

Actually, this involves “vectors” more than “calculus”, but it’s kind of cool how it works.

There’s an issue with gender in this movie. Forager bees are females, not males.

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  1. Steven said,

    January 6, 2008 at 11:28 am

    It’s a shame they don’t explain better about how the distance to the flowers is communicated.

    But it was an interesting movie.

  2. Darmok said,

    January 20, 2008 at 6:51 am

    That’s remarkable!

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