The Hives

"Yes boss, it is the same signature. No, I am still looking into it." "I understand, a report will be ready when you return. Have a safe trip." She hung up and placed the phone into her lab coat's pocket before she slid on a new pair of rubber gloves, prepared for another long night in the cold autopsy room. No pun intended, but the cold never bothered her anyway. Securing the procedure mask over her tall nose and thin lips, she focused on the lifeless body that lay face up on the large metal autopsy table. All was quiet and peaceful at this moment in this confined and frigid facility. Across from her stood a man that was a head taller than her 179 centimeters frame, while she was young, confident, and beautiful, he was everything opposite to her- mature, cautious, and secretive. Yet he spoke with hesitation, the scars time left on his forehead became prominent as he pondered his next words. "Did a problem arise?" "No," She breathed out heavily to let out the earlier tension from the phone call. Ever since her superior summoned her back from the States after a series of investigation, the workload didn't seem to decrease as similar events began to also take place here in South Korea. However, there was no one more suited for the job than her, the perfect candidate to communicate with the dead bodies that held secrets, their secrets. "You were saying before?" The man subtly glanced away from her masked expression and returned his eyes toward the fatal wound of…

get in the bowl.” That was the question of the hour, as construction on Skittle Hive began, for it landed in the bowl it would be a reward with a glory and honor, not to mention a cool ten points. To do this many things had to be considered, such as elasticity constants, and the energy that was being used. Once that was done the catapult had to be made and tested on angle and how far it could firer. Then it was ready, ready to fire and reach for the skies or maybe ten points. All because physics…

In this piece Darwin describes the differences between the hive bee and the humble bee. Bees have to shape their cells in ways that they hold the greatest amount of honey possible while using the least amount of wax. It seems quite amazing how these bees can make these shapes with all the angles and planes but what is amazing is that all it came from their instinct. The hive and the humble bee both structure their cells differently. At one end of the spectrum, the humble use their old their old…

A little background on Marshall Poe. “Marshall Tillbrook Poe is an American historian, writer, editor and founder of the New Books Network, an online collection of podcast interviews with a wide range of non-fiction authors.” Wikipedia is a very well known site to be an encyclopedia. Students constantly question why Wikipedia is a bad source and teachers will often fail students for using Wikipedia as a source for information, teachers try to have students understand that Wikipedia is not a…

Aethina Tumida, Small Hive Beetles (SHB), is native to sub-Saharan Africa, and it is a regular pest to the African subspecies of the western honey bee, Apis mellifera Linnaeus. Be that as it may, the beetle has been located outside of its natural habitat, where it is known to cause extensive damage to the plethora of colonies of the European subspecies of honey bees. In 1996, the small hive beetle was first sighted in the United States across a variety of states. There is no clear answer to how…

Here Heath focuses the majority of his argument analyzing Mandeville’s famous poem. In the poem a hive of bees, which serves as a metaphor for society, all act of self-interest which results in a large and prosperous commercial society. Mandeville’s fundamental argument is that trade not only benefits the individuals involved but the public as well. He goes on to say that commerce provides the conditions necessary to seek and realize improvements due to intense competition. Mandeville argues…

All of live in a society where it is impossible to be blasted with opinions wherever we are, and one could say it is near impossible to develop your own logical opinion because it is influenced by everything around you and not developed through reasoning and thought. This is where mob mentality comes in. Mob mentality is created when members of a group latch onto the ideas and beliefs of other members until you create a hive mind. These people follow blindly what everyone else thinks and when…

Marshall Poe, history professor and author of The Hive, and Thomas L. Friedman, three time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention, discuss two different but similar topics: Wikipedia and global supply chains. Both of these collaborative paradigms come with consequences that can be either positive or negative. In the world today, collaborative paradigms generate both positive and negative ramifications in the way that people, businesses, and countries all over…

This claim is the main point of Mandeville’s poem The Grumbling Hive, but what do Post Keynesians think of this argument? To my approximation, their response to this argument is much the same as their response to the argument from Mun. Provided the self-interest is aimed toward increasing the propensity to consume and subsequently the effective demand, then it does seem to provide economically and socially beneficial outcomes. On the other hand, if Mandeville’s idea of self-interest is…

defending society from the “hive mind”: the limiting congregation of people’s minds around a single idea. Hive minds agree on certain issues, be it LGBTQ+ rights, immigration, or gun control. They consist of people who interact with similar people who reinforce those beliefs for the entirety of their lives which can lead to increasingly polarized and isolated political ideas. This problem affects the lives of people all around the world. An example would be the shoe company TOMS and their…