Millions of years!

The fact that they navigate by memorising visual landmarks like trees, buildings, and flowers to recognise familiar routes is unbelievable

I think the most interesting thing about them is that they can communicate the location of flowers to other bees.

Amazing what well trained small neural networks can achieve.

Associative learning

I had a planter wart surgically removed which they packed with Manuka honey and because it's a deep open wound it needs to heal from the inside. I changed the dressing and repacked it every few days for weeks and the wound was absolutely pristine ever time.

I live in the tropics where people die because due to infection which makes it even more interesting that they use honey.

plantar wart. all wart removals should heal pristinely, warts are on only the outermost layers of skin above where scarring occurs.

Surgical wart removal can involve some pretty deep incisions and month long recovery. Scars aren't unheard of as I understand it

(And it can be futile ! The wart can easily come back)

The wound was about 6mm deep on my heel and took months to heal properly. And yes I did check those homophones :-)

And thanks for the other homophone correction!

Pristine implies not only a lack of scarring, but no infection during the healing process.

"they" say "I haven't got a car".

Contractions are common in Australian English to, though becoming less so due to the influence of US English.

Whether something is near field or far field is frequency dependent

We used to pay AU$30 for the entire house which included everything except cooking but it did include a 10 year 1RU rack Mount server. Electricity isn't particularly cheap here.

I've been using sqitch for years and haven't had any problems with it. Though they haven't been big projects with lots of devs so I may be using in it's sweet spot.

Their blog is an incredibly useful resource for so many different scenarios.

I love Stig of the Dump. I read it at school and whilst I have very memories of my childhood I do remember reading it. I can quite imagine living in a dump/tip with old jam jars as my window!

twaddle is word I haven't heard for a long time (I moved from the UK to Australia 27 years ago). It's a great word!

It is a lovely word, indeed, and it is undeservedly heavily underutilised, hands down.

I find myself using it nowadays rather sparingly and mostly in just one phrase (and its semantic derivatives): «all that twaddle […]».