Peter Bartalos

“depending on how much nectar it’s found and how much help it has already recruited, a foraging honeybee flies back to the hive and communicates a status update by waggling figure eights on the walls. These torso wags map the exact location of a food source in relation to the sun, as well as its precise distance from the hive. If there are not enough bees outside the hive to exploit the find, the forager bee adds flourishes such as grabbing a hive mate from above and shaking him all over. Not enough workers in-house to process the flood of incoming nectar? The bee will tremble while moving through the hive “with forelegs held aloft like Saint Vitus dancers,” write the entomologists. Signaling”
― Susan Pinker, The Village Effect: Why Face-to-face Contact Matters

“It used to be that the big eat the small; now it’s the fast that eat the slow. Fast is the new big.”
― Daniel Burrus, Flash Foresight: How to See the Invisible and Do the Impossible

“Yet research shows that skill in reading, writing, and arithmetic, academic standing in high school, scores on college entrance tests and much more besides, are linked to sitting down to family dinner. The more meals you eat with your child, the larger the child’s vocabulary and the higher his or her grades, an effect that is exaggerated in girls. From”
― Susan Pinker, The Village Effect: Why Face-to-face Contact Matters

“it would take the average American only eleven hours of labor per week to produce as much as he or she produced in forty hours in 1950.”
― Erik Brynjolfsson, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies