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Colloidal Silver is silver suspended in a solution, normally water. It's made by grinding or electrolysis.

Silver is a metal that has been used in medical instruments for a long time. It is easily cleaned.

Many believe it to have anti bacterial, fungus, and viral properties.

However, no scientific research has shown it to help medically when ingested or injected. So, it falls in the realm of snake oil.

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Bees Against ElephantsThe bee method could save the elephants By Stefan Anitei, Science Editor

9th of October 2007, 06:52 GMT

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Bees-Against-Elephants-67949.shtml

This is not a cartoon joke: the Goliath of our days can be chased away by the same insects: bees. The giant mammals evacuate the place as soon as they hear the buzz of a bee swarm.

In the end, this could be their sa...

Wolfgang H. Kirchner and William F. Towne two honey bee biologist. Have done some amazing work:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/244/4905/686

Hearing in Honey Bees: Detection of Air-Particle Oscillations

WILLIAM F. TOWNE 1 and WOLFGANG H. KIRCHNER 2

Science 12 May 1989:

Vol. 244. no. 4905, pp. 686 - 688

DOI: 10.1126/science.244.4905.686

Recent DNA research findings:

http://biblioteca.universia.net/html_bura/ficha/params/id/627801.html

Within the past 40 years, Africanized honey bees spread from Brazil and now occupy most areas habitable by the species Apis mellifera, from Argentina to the southwestern United States. The primary genetic source for Africanized honey bees is believed to be the sub-Saharan honey bee subspecies A. m. s...

Dr. Karl von Frisch is a well known honey bee scientist. Here is a biography of his works:

Source: http://www.animalbehavioronline.com/frisch.html

Juan Antonio Perez-Sato1, 2, William O.H. Hughes1, 3, Margaret J. Couvillon1, 4 and Francis L.W. Ratnieks1, 5

1  Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
2  Present address: Colegio de Postgraduados Campus Cordoba, Km 348 Carretera Federal Cordoba-Veracruz, Congregación Manuel Leon Amatlan de los Reyes, Cordoba, Veracruz,...

Saturday, January 12, 2008

Future Directions for Honey Research