After-Orts #118

… bees can demonstrate sophisticated emotions resembling optimism, frustration, playfulness and fear…. bees can experience PTSD-like symptoms, recognize different human faces, process long-term memories while sleeping, and maybe even dream.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/02/bees-intelligence-minds-pollination

 

… three-quarters of Earth's food supply [for humans] draws on just 12 crops and five livestock species.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/extinction-threatens-foods-we-eat-180965081/


It’s always darkest before it’s totally black.
     — former U.S. Senator John McCain (1936-2018)
https://time.com/5179302/john-mccain-dies/