Links for 2009-10-21

Bees on cocaine: The facts
"The men, for reasons that seemed good to them at the time, got some bees hooked on cocaine and then turned them out to find some sugar. According to the boffins, cocaine turns good bees - productive members of the hive - into untrustworthy scumbags…"
(tags:sci drugs wtf ignobel )Brain transplant bird points to origin of communication - life - 20 October 2009 - New Scientist
"Creating chimeras with the higher brain of a songbird and the hindbrain of a non-singer may...