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[muji]

What is the last new thing you learned?

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[camwyn]

That the vast majority of modern beehives used in the United States and a significant portion of the rest of the world are virtually identical in design and function to the movable-frame beehive patented in 1852 by the Reverend Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth, who clearly must have been some kind of superhero with a name like that.

... okay, that's not the most recent thing I learned, but I wanted to share the coolest name in apiculture with y'all anyway.

[muji]

That is such an epic name. Why is he not his own YA superhero character?

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Wish I knew. Possibly because he looks like somebody's grandmother. Seriously.

His superpower appears to have been animal observation and comprehension, since he was into watching and trying to understand insects even as a boy- he got punished for wearing out his trouser knees spending too much time kneeling by anthills. When he grew up he had depression issues and took up beekeeping to deal with them, and went right back to the insect observation thing, at which point he designed the hive that makes modern agriculture and beekeeping as we know it possible. And then wrote a fascinating book which is available on Project Gutenberg, The Hive and the Honey-Bee.

Gotta love this man. Seriously.

[time_dancer]

OMG It's Mrs. Doubtfire!

[kd7sov]

Fluttershy wants to meet him now.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

What's that icon from?

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Someone did a Harry Potter version of Skippy's List (of things PFC Skippy Schwartz is no longer allowed to do in the US Army). The text of the icon came from that. Don't know who made the actual image, though.