I'm sooo getting tired of top-level, highly-paid executives who give out these kinds of general directions, meanwhile they have absolutely no idea where to start, no inkling of how it might work, nor whether it's even mathematically possible. I'm looking of at you, Mr. Director of the FBI, whose main qualifications seems to be to ignore science..

Grrrr! My consumer-/tax-dollars at work.

I had the same reaction as epine: "Margaret Wente, really? People still pay attention to her"?

If you did go to the Stats Can link that Wente provided, you should have noticed that the link only shows stats for the years 2010 to 2014, a very short period of time. Now, Statistics Canada is a very good, reputable government agency, so I didn't dismiss their stats out of hand, but still... What was going on?

Do as I did and as iONiUM should have done before posting this article here: Click on the Add/Remove Data tab, right next to the default-selected Data Table tab. You can change the range of years reported. At Step 3 - select the time frame I selected a range from 1984 to 2014. Lo and behold!: the bee population nowadays is less than half of what it was in the mid--eighties - from 20,810 in 1984 to 8,777 in 2014, the year of Wente's purported rebound...

Frackin' info-cherry-picking Margaret Wente! She's one of the reasons I stopped reading the Globe and Mail.

Came here to say the same thing. It's slow/unusable on the original Nexus 7, but on the 2013 version, it's fine.

Came here to ask the same question.

...er, no. We're building an army of drones and the attendant expertise to fly them so we can use them to burn down your White House....again.

Naw, it's just a Magrathean project to kick-start the still sluggish economy.

Set phasers to malkie!

Or I guess he never heard of or used MSR equipment, eh? Y'know, 'cuz it's only been around, like, thirty-five years or so.

In addition, the rotting half-eaten salmon carcasses are often the only source of nitrogen for the vegetation.

Me, I would have gone with Ciscical.

Damn you! I came here to say this!

"Shakes fist"... Dang, beat me to it!

...now 'trial' as a verb? Sigh..

Firstly: the study says "synchronous oscillations around 25 and 40 Hz". Secondly: I wonder what voltage they're using...2 amps? Maybe 14,000 Ergs? Or how about 350 grams?

(wait for it) ... how will we cook 'em?