Piloteer Emrys Morgan finds a sign

Whilst experimenting with his new digital camera, Piloteer Emrys Morgan came across this sign, photographed it as evidence, and sent it in.

How to Change the Future

Piloteer Martin Luther King agrees, "There is Only the Now!"

"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. We are faced now with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late…We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: Too late.”

Martin Luther King Jr. ‘Where do we go from here: chaos or community’

In the company of the Tin Man

Piloteer Emrys Morgan and myself went underground with the Tin Man, Geoff Treseder, in August in search of the tin to make more tin bee brooches for the Piloteers. I would call it a life changing experience, either crawling through a two foot space or a foot deep in water in the pitch blackness.

Here are some photos from the adventure. Imagine my surprise when the next day I saw the Tin Man walking out with Dorothy!

Beehaviour

Check out Piloteer Thomas D. Seeley's research:

"My analyses of collective decision-making by honey bee colonies indicate that a group will possess a high level of SI (Swarm Intelligence) if among the group’s members there is:

1) diversity of knowledge about the available options,
2) open and honest sharing of information about the options,
3) independence in the members’ evaluations of the options,
4) unbiased aggregation of the members’ opinions on the options, and
5) leadership that fosters but does not dominate the discussion."

See: http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/seeley.shtml

You can hear about bees dancing themselves into democratic consensus:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/05/24/136391522/natures-secret-why-honey-bees-are-better-politicians-than-humans?ps=cprs

John

The Pilot - a Commentary.

Piloteer Mike Hughes of Horsforth Modern Art gallery in Horsforth near Leeds has made an exciting new video addition to the Pilot of Bee Patrol oeuvre. Here is his movie, judge for yourselves. I am looking forward to a series of commentaries.