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This list of 19 numbers looks extremely cryptic. What are they? Why 19? Roll back up to the listing of NAOs ("NATURAL POPULATIONS"). How many NAOs does silicon have? Of course, 19! These 19 numbers list the coefficient on each silicon NAO used to build the natural hybrid orbital (NHO) on silicon for this natural bond orbital (NBO).

Each carbon NHO will have 15 coefficients and each hydrogen will have only 2. Why?

For this particular NBO, notice that the hybridization of silicon is essentially \(sp^3\) and that the big NAO contributors are the 3s and 3p orbitals. You usually don't need to look at this listing; you can go right to the hybridization on the line above. Head there now.

This list of 19 numbers looks extremely cryptic. What are they? Why 19? Roll back up to the listing of NAOs ("NATURAL POPULATIONS"). How many NAOs does silicon have? Of course, 19! These 19 numbers list the coefficient on each silicon NAO used to build the natural hybrid orbital (NHO) on silicon for this natural bond orbital (NBO).

Each carbon NHO will have 15 coefficients and each hydrogen will have only 2. Why?

For this particular NBO, notice that the hybridization of silicon is essentially \(sp^3\) and that the big NAO contributors are the 3s and 3p orbitals. You usually don't need to look at this listing; you can go right to the hybridization on the line above. Head there now.

Compare this, in principle, to what an exam invigilator does with F2F assessments; 1) they ensure that students aren't communicating with anyone else, 2) ensure that students aren't reviewing banned material in the exam, 3) monitor where students are looking during the exam. No-one has ever seriously complained about that. If the assessment took place in a venue that wasn't a students' room (i.e. the process removed the concerns that someone is looking at their bedrooms), would everything be OK?

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Mortimer J. Adler misses out entirely on the potential value of social annotation by suggesting that one shouldn't share or lend their annotated volumes.

Fortunately this sort of advice wasn't previously dispensed in the middle ages or during the Renaissance, particularly by scholars. (See also The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus by Owen Gingerich in which he outlines the spread of knowledge by sharing books and particularly the annotations within them.)

Veel zinnen beginnen met "I", eventueel af en toe anders verwoorden.

If there are different stats and ways to show that one player is definitely better than the other, and the point of a conversation is to decide who is better, then these stats are incredibly useful.

SciScore for 10.1101/2022.01.07.475443: (What is this?)

Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

Table 1: Rigor

Table 2: Resources

Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).

Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.

Results from Barzooka: We found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).

Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.

• Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
• No funding statement was detected.
• No protocol registration statement was detected.

Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.

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This sentence written by the author shows how much connection the brothers share.

This highlights the two brothers' connection and how much he misses his sibling.

Understanding how society functioned in the past is key in learning how to improve in the future

According to geotrauma theory, clear and articulate speech, and lawful civilization ("Logos") in general, is a way for earth to repress its Hadean Eon trauma. Sounds that are not clear or articulate threaten to destroy this repression, which is why they are so disconcerting and almost dangerous to civilization.

reforms to church and state echo netherlands

Couldn't work out how to highlight or annotate video. The accent takes a little getting used to although subtitles helps. The video is helpful in getting your head around the different concepts and finally there is a practical use for differential calculus and Euclidean distance.

Story from Myrna:

Son was in counseling, counselor threw a box of tissue across the room and asked "where is that box of tissue supposed to be?" Her son: "On the table.". Counselor: "No, that is where you want it to be. It is across the room because that is where it is supposed to be. I through it across the room - physics, purpose, etc all mean it is SUPPOSED to be across the room. you WANT it on the table but everything that happened, every decision, meant that it is on the floor across the room"

coercion-intensive: rulers drew resources for warmaking from head taxes and other ponderous fiscal machines

capital-intensive: effortless tax systems and readily available credit

The amount of outreach and influence that the amount of 'followers' you have will always baffle me because of how irresponsible people can be with such power. And the fact that those mistakes can be the typed just as fast as the thought comes across your head is dangerous.

The second-last meaning of "trou": a hole in one's head, made with the "flingue."

In a moment of unusual confidence, the Ticket-Puncher expresses his faith that the day will come when he's able to hit the open road, head off into nature...

So many meanings of "hole"! Here, the hole in the ground where he works; the holes he punches in tickets. Soon, the holes he threatens to put in his own head...

If this was the Gainsbarre of the late 70s and 80s, there would be other kinds of holes — but not in 1958.

Nothing too tricky from a linguistic perspective, just wanted to highlight this fun image: "carnival of confetti," all those punched holes, that stick to his clothes like sand in your shoes after a day at the beach...

But why is it in his head? He's not imagining it — it's quite literal. Is it that his brain has been reduced to little fragmented, meaningless bits by his boring, repetitive job?

Extracting a WARC record

Once we’ve identified the offset and length of a particular record (in this case, an offset of 1260 bytes and a length of 1085 bytes), we can snip out an individual record like this:

$ tail -c +1261 hello-world.warc | head -c 1085

Some examples of the foreign policy that lead to this outcome

Using a completely blank page as the start of any creative endeavor is a miserable choice for writing. Start with some other object and annotate either on it or next to it. Look at something else as a base. Starting with blank nothing is a recipe for loneliness and disaster. So-called distraction free writing tools are the worst.

Didn't Ernest Hemmingway analogize staring at a blank page like facing a white bull? There is a litany of quotes about writers facing the blank page.

Why not, instead, use the advice of ancient rhetors by starting with the best? Become a bee and collect the best materials for your honey first. If we don't look to them, then perhaps follow the lesson taught by Benjamin Franklin on writing or the same lesson repeated in the movie Finding Forrester. Start with someone else's work and rewrite that until you find your own words. This is what makes writing while annotating so easy and simple. You've got a nice tapestry of textures to begin your work.

Giving birth to something fully formed as if from the head of Zeus is a fallacy. It only works for the gods.

any small rounded body or glandlike mass, such as the head of the penis

You end up optimizing for the thing that you were measuring.

WAT Response Format

WAT files contain important metadata about the records stored in the WARC format above. This metadata is computed for each of the three types of records (metadata, request, and response). If the information crawled is HTML, the computed metadata includes the HTTP headers returned and the links (including the type of link) listed on the page.

This information is stored as JSON. To keep the file sizes as small as possible, the JSON is stored with all unnecessary whitespace stripped, resulting in a relatively unreadable format for humans. If you want to inspect the JSON file yourself, use one of the many JSON pretty print tools available.

The HTTP response metadata is most likely to be of interest to CommonCrawl users. The skeleton of the JSON format is outlined below.

    Envelope
        WARC-Header-Metadata
        Payload-Metadata
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                    HTML-Metadata
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.12.20.21268124: (What is this?)

Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

Table 1: Rigor

Table 2: Resources

Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).

However, there are limitations associated with this study. Due to the observational design, residual biases (e.g., misclassification of vaccine exposure in patients vaccinated outside the clinic, inability to identify all asymptomatic infections) and confounding may exist. Randomized clinical trials comparing individual COVID-19 vaccines head-to-head are not likely to be performed in this population. The electronic health records do not contain standardized documentation of COVID-19 symptoms and therefore we could not estimate vaccine effectiveness with regard to mitigating or tempering severity of symptoms. Although the model adjusted for likelihood to follow mask, social distancing and vaccine recommendations throughout the US by adjusting for state and county level presidential election voting records, individual patient actual adherence to those recommendations is not known. Finally, we did not know the specific SARS-CoV-2 variant for each infection and attributed all infections to the Delta variant after June 26, 2021. In conclusion, SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are effective in maintenance dialysis patients, reducing the risk of both COVID-19 cases and COVID-related hospitalization or death. COVID-19 cases increased during the Delta variant dominant period and current immunosuppression criteria are limited in identifying dialysis patients at highest breakthrough risk. Further research is needed to evaluate the potential utility of antibody titer monitoring to determine patients ...

Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.

Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.

Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.

• Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
• Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
• No protocol registration statement was detected.

Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.

About SciScore

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Reviewer #2 (Public Review):

A fundamental aspect of sleep is that it is homeostatically regulated. Sleep homeostasis manifests along two dimensions, sleep duration and sleep intensity. Following sleep loss, animals can recover lost sleep by sleeping longer, sleeping deeper, or doing both. In many species, sleep duration can be measured behaviorally (e.g., the animal is immobile in a sleep posture with closed eyes) or electrophysiologically, via measuring brain activity (electroencephalogram, EEG) along with other physiological parameters that change between wakefulness and sleep. Sleep intensity is measured by determining the amount of stimulation needed to awaken an animal. As this method is disruptive to sleep, the quantity (spectral power) of slow waves in the EEG, which correlates with sleep intensity in mammals, is often used to measure sleep intensity.

Most of our understanding about sleep homeostasis is derived from controlled laboratory experiments where ecological pressures are minimized. However, little is known about how animals reconcile ecological pressures for wakefulness with the homeostatic need for sleep. In this paper, the authors used a neck mounted accelerometer and GPS device to characterize the sleep behavior of a troop of baboons living in the wild. Although EEG devices are now being used to record sleep in a variety of animals in the wild (i.e., sloths, sandpipers, owls, and frigatebirds), this method is not suitable for wild baboons, as they would likely attempt to remove the equipment. However, accelerometry can be used to estimate the time spent sleeping in the wild, once validated against either direct measures of sleep behavior (posture, eye state, immobility) or EEG measures of sleep. In the current paper, accelerometry was validated against behavioral measures of sleep obtained with thermal cameras; immobile baboons sitting with the head hung were considered to be asleep.

Using accelerometry, the authors investigated the impact that various ecological factors had on the time spent sleeping. Baboons slept more when spending the night in their preferred trees. They slept less when sleeping in larger groups, apparently due to awakenings of individuals disrupting the sleep of other group members. Indeed, the timing of bouts of sleep and wakefulness were more synchronous within groups sharing the same tree. The time spent sleeping on a given night was not influenced by how much time the baboons spent sleeping the previous night or how much time they were active during the day. As one might expect the baboons to recover lost sleep following a night with less sleep by sleeping longer, the authors suggest that ecological factors interfere with the homeostatic regulation of sleep. The lack of a relationship between the time spent traveling and sleep duration on the following night was also interpreted as evidence for ecological factors interfering with the homeostatic regulation of sleep.

The results support the authors' interpretation if one only considers sleep duration as a means for recovering lost sleep. However, effective sleep homeostasis could have been mediated by modulating sleep intensity. Baboons that lost some sleep on one night might recover this sleep by sleeping deeper, but not longer, on the subsequent night. Without measuring sleep intensity, it is not possible to have a full accounting of the amount of sleep obtained under the various ecological conditions.

Despite this limitation, the authors present a large and unique dataset on the ecology of sleep in highly social animals living in the wild. The finding that baboons sleep less when sleeping in trees with which they are less familiar, illustrates that safe sleep sites are an important resource for animals. The synchrony between bouts of wakefulness and sleep among group members is also interesting, as it suggests that the group does not maximize vigilance by sleeping and waking asynchronously, as some researchers had proposed. In addition, it suggests that a potential cost of sleeping in groups is disrupted sleep. As such, this study adds to our understanding of the ecology of sleep in socially sleeping animals.

Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

By presenting the detrimental effect of accumulative heterozygous mutations on the sperm head morphology, this report by Martinez and colleagues brings new attention to a wildly accepted paradigm in male germ cells that genetically haploid spermatids are phenotypically diploid, suggesting that multiple heterozygous mutations can lead to unexplained male infertility. The merit of this manuscript is the conceptual advance - oligogenic mutations as the possible cause of male infertility - the manuscript proposes, the strong rationale and reasoning of the motivation of the study, and development of a new tool to visually and quantitatively assess sperm head morphology which will benefit the field in general. The weakness that offsets these strengths is that the sperm phenotypes of the multiple heterozygous mice - while significant - are quite subtle in morphological changes and lack physiological phenotype. The study also does not provide data to support molecular mechanisms such as changes in the protein levels or localizations in their animal models. Due to these limitations, at currently presented the study remains rather descriptive and speculative. It would also be better to avoid excessive novelty claims.

Reviewer #2 (Public Review):

Digenic and oligogenic inheritance are extensions of monogenic disease models, in which effects of variation at two loci (digenic) or a few loci (oligogenic) contribute to the overall phenotype of an individual. The existence of oligogenic inheritance has been appreciated in human genetics for decades, and has been especially well documented for rare disorders with extensive locus heterogeneity, such as retinal degeneration, a condition for which more than 250 loci have been identified (Kousi and Katsanis 2015). Male infertility, itself a collection of diverse and often severe disorders affecting sperm count and sperm morphology, is likely to be driven by as many or even more loci as retinal degeneration, and is thus likely to feature oligogenic inheritance in some familial cases. Indeed, hypogonadic hypogonadism is one of the earliest and best examples of a human disease displaying digenic inheritance. Nonetheless, numerous challenges abound in the identification of digenic or oligogenic causes of male infertility, and validated examples in humans and model organisms are badly needed. In this study, Martinez et al. demonstrate oligogenic inheritance of sperm abnormalities by breeding a series of KO strains known to feature multiple morphological abnormalities of the flagella (MMAF). This is a significant paper for both the sperm abnormality field and for the broader male infertility community. the experiments and analyses are straightforward and the manuscript is well written.

My primary concerns are simply about the description of the experiments and analyses themselves.<br> 1. There are numerous references to the "% of abnormal cells", "% of head abnormalities", "% flagellum abnormalities" (Figures 1B, 2B, 3B, 4B, 5, 6 and elsewhere). There are no clear definitions of how a cell is classified as "abnormal" or a head is classified as "abnormal" or a flagellum is classified as "abnormal". Are these all defined from manual classification of images? This seems essential to know if someone would like to reproduce this experiment.

2. In order to be of most value to the community, it would be helpful to provide the individual-level data behind Figures 5,6,7, indexed by genotype. Currently the supplementary tables just contain the summary statistics for each group. Further, for the individual level data, it would be good to decode the labels from "two genes" and "three genes" to the actual genotypes, since there are multiple genotypes in those groups. These data could be used for fitting genetic models to each of the traits (e.g. to estimate additive effects, epistatic effects, etc).

To most Americans today, this in an incredibly radical statement. Worth pulling up the reference and seeing the evidence on this.

Given the reference, this is more attributable to David Graeber.

The Persian (By Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead). The queen dreamed that her son was lost in the war. She especially said in the last paragraph, my son was thrown away. I can see that she is surprised and terrified, but also very worried. At the same time, like the Aeschylus version, it also describes her worry and fear of losing her child. But Aeschylus did not describe in detail how her child was lost. The Morshead version described in detail that her son's head was pierced in by auto parts and then lost his life. This version can be more graphic, and I can feel from the text that the queen is very nervous and scared.

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This was seen as ideal and being superior

At the time the head of state was Paul Biya. He is the second longest ruling president in Africa, the longest ruling leader in the world who wasn't royal, and the oldest head of state in Africa. He has detained citizens for speaking out against his rule and extravagant lifestyle.

How many non-agricultural societies practiced slavery?

Apparently some indigenous societies on the American Northwest Coast did down into coastal California.

I would love for this to be made more user friendly and explained better! I was able to run it but its hard to wrap your head around all the parameters while you are doing it.

Diego cannot remain faithful to Frida.. his central focus is through his penis.

In my first draft I talked about how the program (HS)2 was a way in which I was able to find "myself". But I did not add sufficient background as to what kind of person I was before that and how I go to become that person. So I added a specific moment in my life that has stuck to my head which was my in Mrs. Ramirez's fifth-grade class and the example of a fight my siblings Victor and Valeria had to form a picture of the kind of person I was at home and at school before attending (HS)2.

In my rough draft, I began this paragraph by immediately talking about about the "image in front of me". The problem was that I failed to mention what I was doing in the moment while these thoughts were racing through my head. Without this sentence, the reader not only is unaware of whether I am standing, sitting, or still running, but they also could potentially lose focus in all the description of the surroundings. This addition was crucial in allowing the final essay to flow more smoothly and feel less like a long list of descriptions and more like a story.

This section of text did not exist in my first draft of the essay. Instead, I ended this paragraph with a sentence stating that the feeling of the wind on my skin was powerful in connecting me to the natural world. The primary reason I decided to edit and add to this section was to give more specificity and detail to the work. Simply saying that something was "incredibly powerful with connecting me with the natural world" is vague and boring. It doesn't give the reader anything to work with. So, I decided to spend some time thinking about how the wind actually made me feel and why I even mentioned it in the first place. Eventually, I settled on this peaceful description of the Shire seen here. As someone who loves "The Lord of the Rings", The Shire has always been practically synonymous with peace and serenity. It is usually the first thing my mind goes to in moments like these. Therefore, I thought it would be the perfect addition and clarification to the description of the wind. This section allows the reader to see much more clearly how I experience the feeling of the wind, not just as something that is powerful with connecting me to the natural world, but as something that can vividly transport me to another world.

If your site has multiple URLs for the same content, share the page's canonical URL instead of the current URL. Instead of sharing document.location.href, you would check for a canonical URL <meta> tag in the page's <head> and share that. This will provide a better experience to the user. Not only does it avoid redirects, but it also ensures that a shared URL serves the correct user experience for a particular client. For example, if a friend shares a mobile URL and you look at it on a desktop computer, you should see a desktop version:

let url = document.location.href;
const canonicalElement = document.querySelector('link[rel=canonical]');
if (canonicalElement !== null) {
    url = canonicalElement.href;
}
navigator.share({url});

Hoccleve literally can not win in this situation. No matter what he does, people are going to dislike him for his differences.

I cannot believe that they played hockey without helmets back then. I would tend to believe most of these guys suffered concussion a lot from fighting and falling on the ice

Compared to today, I have no idea how they did not wear any head protection.

This is showing how the media controls the public's view on different matters. Still happens today unfortunately

Sometimes getting upset can help motivate you to be a better player. I always always taught in sports to have sportsmanship and to be respectful. It is much better to lose with your head held high than to just to fight it out.. I mean when you fight or get into brawls, what did you gain?

What an amazing honor. It would have been awesome to see this and feel the love from the crowd.

Reviewer #3 (Public Review):

Cecilia-Martinez et al., implement a task that allows the study of premature versus timely actions in rats. First, they show that rats can learn this task. Next, they record the activity in the DMS showing start/stop signals in the cells recorded, next they propose that the activity detected before the release of actions sequences discriminate the premature vs the timely initiations showing a relationship between the waiting time and the activity of cells recorded, furthermore they show that it could be the expectancy of reward what could be encoded in the activity before entering the port. Last they show that adolescent rats show more premature starts than adult rats documenting a difference in activity modulation of DMS cells in the relation between waiting time and firing rate (although above the premature threshold, see comments below). 

Overall the paper is well presented describing a well-developed set of experiments.

1) I understand rats learn to execute sequences of <8licks or 8 licks, although diagrams are presented, no examples of the individual trials with 8 licks, neither distributions of bouts of these licks are presented. 

2) Relevant to the statement: "in this task, the firing rate modulation preceding trial initiation discriminates between premature and timely trials and does not predict the speed, regularity, structure, value or vigor of the subsequently released action sequence"... It is not clear if the latency to first lick (plot 2D) and the inter-lick interval (2E) is only from the 8Lick sequences or not. If that is not the case, it is important to compare only the ones with 8Licks.

3) Related to the implications of the previous statement, there seems to be a tendency for longer latency to first lick in timely vs premature trials in Figure 2D (timely-trials-Late vs premature-trials-late)? Again here it is important to compare the 8licks sequences only.

4) I could not find in the main text whether the individual points in Fig.2 (e.g. 2B-E) are individual animals. Please specify that.

5) Although very elegant the argument presented in Figure 4C and 6C, I wonder if the head acceleration may lose differences in movements outside the head in the two kinds of trials. If that is the case please acknowledge it.

6) Also in 4C, small separations between timely vs premature signals are seen before 0. Is there a way to know if animals in timely vs premature trials approached the entry port in the same way? This request is pertinent in order to rule out motor contribution to the differences in Figure 4A-B.

7) when saying: "Similar results were obtained in rats trained with a longer waiting interval (Supplementary Figure 5)", "is hard to see the similarity in the premature range, while in the 2.5 seconds task there is a positive relationship in the 5 seconds task it is not.

8) The data showing that the waiting modulation of reward anticipation grows at a faster rate in adolescent rats is clear, however, it is not clear how it could be related to the data showing that the adolescent rats were more impulsive.

9) Related to the sentence: "the strength of anticipatory activity increased with the time waited before response release and was higher in the more impulsive adolescent rats"....One may expect to see a difference in the range of the premature time however the differences were observed in the range >2.5 seconds. Please explain how to reconcile this finding with the fact that the adolescent rats were more impulsive.

Here I worked to create a description that would paint a picture in my reader's head through concrete details. I wanted to change up the way I described buttered noodles so that it did not seem as repetitive for the reader.

Seems as though Maria's mother has come down with an illness.

Very interesting story.

It is interesting that this is allowed in hockey, but in any other sport, the player would be ejected and most likely miss games.

if a player did that today,they would be fined and suspended form play for awhile

I swear in other sports, if this were to happen, you would be out of the game and even may be done with your professional career.

gives some insight to Richard's usual tactics and actions while playing. I cannot imagine using this violence or watching it

In the description of Douglass Gentile's bio it says that he is a award winning research scientist, author, educator, he also is a professor of research at Iowa state University

In the description of James Rosser it states that he is general specialist in Silver City, NM and has over 41 years of experience in the medical field. He graduated Univesity of MS school of Medical school in 1980.

This seems to be a reliable source as both of these indicate since Douglass Gintile is a proven award winning research scientists, educator, and author as well as having 30 years of experience in the field also for Dr. James Rosser is a proven medical specialist who has 41 year of experience and he is a graduate of the University of the Mississippi school of medicine. The conclusion that I gain from there experience in their felid is their evidence is reliable when it comes to this specific test

Here is the Link for Doctor James Rosser and Douglass Gentile's website:https://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-james-rosser-yq7y6 https://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-james-rosser-yq7y6

Fact Checking week 7

This is a deductive argument because the logical conclusion which is hat children and adults who play video games have higher motor control is supported by the logical premise which includes statistical evidence from credible sources such as Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical centre.

This is modus ponens because the logical argument supports the conclusion

If A then B

A Therefore, B

This is highlighting that what we thought we knew about the things around us are sometimes false realities, and rather images we recast in our head.

turned his head quickly; rather violent. shows he was highly eager to see what was about to happen next after the shot

This tells us that he made the shot into the net but the fact that he only saw an orange blur after he fell is personally concerning and seems to imply that he hit his head and got badly hurt.

imagining the play in his head and him trying to process the play

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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.12.08.21267452: (What is this?)

Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

Table 1: Rigor

Table 2: Resources

Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).

Strengths and limitations of this study: Strengths of this study include the large overall sample size covering multiple test sites nationwide, collection of samples for the reference and two Ag-RDTs in the same individuals within a few hours allowing for a head-to-head comparison of the two self-tests, sampling done by the participants themselves without any supervision conform the real-world context of self-testing, blinding of the index for the reference test result and vice versa, and the use of a proxy for infectiousness. Furthermore, the follow-up information showed that very few infections were missed by the molecular reference tests. Our study also has some limitations. First, the reference standards that we used were molecular tests, but platforms and test kits used differed among the centralized laboratories. However, the diagnostic accuracies of all molecular tests used are similarly high25,26, and we therefore believe that this has not influenced our findings significantly. In addition, Ct values used to calculate viral loads were determined by different yet comparable platforms (supplementary material 3). Second, we used the viral load cut-off above which 95% of people with a positive RT-PCR test result had a positive virus culture as a proxy of infectiousness. Although this cut-off is not fully evidence based3, it is a best estimate based on current knowledge, and less arbitrary than using Ct cut-offs of 25 or 30 as is often done.27,28 In the current study, we r...

Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.

Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.

Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.

• Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
• Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
• No protocol registration statement was detected.

Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.

About SciScore

SciScore is an automated tool that is designed to assist expert reviewers by finding and presenting formulaic information scattered throughout a paper in a standard, easy to digest format. SciScore checks for the presence and correctness of RRIDs (research resource identifiers), and for rigor criteria such as sex and investigator blinding. For details on the theoretical underpinning of rigor criteria and the tools shown here, including references cited, please follow this link.

This proves that the experiment was unethical because Little Albert was traumatized throughout it and came out of it with a fear he didn't have before.

I added this entire paragraph in order to show how I had lost confidence in myself. Previously, I had only written about my home run and left out the part about my crucial error. Although I mentioned the doubts in my head, I didn't provide the full story behind it. Adding this section allows the reader to see exactly what is going through my mind down to the second. When you read it, it's almost like you are there with me. I did this by adding concrete and sensory details about the error. You are with me every step of the way. I chose to include my own negative thoughts so that my emotions are apparent. That way, when I finally do redeem myself, the victory seems that much more powerful. You can see the internal battle that I conquered.

I felt like my conclusion needed a little more nuance. I didn't want to just tell a feel-good story that everyone's heard a thousand times before. Previously I had written that everything had gotten better and my attempts at fixing my anxiety fully worked. Obviously, that isn't the truth. It's never that easy. So, instead, I was brutally honest with myself and the reader by saying that I am constantly working on it, but it's hard. I won't always succeed. This adds a level of reality to my essay that makes it more relatable. I think that it is a much more powerful way to end because the struggle continues beyond the page. I used my knowledge of effective conclusions to leave the reader with a way that they can think about their own struggles. It's impossible to do it all in one day, but you can work at it over time.

This was a portion that I significantly changed. Previously, all I had written after the conversation was, "These words truly rocked my world." That was not specific enough and didn't provide the information about the internal struggle I was facing. By adding the rest, I was able to set in motion my path to fighting this battle. I re-read the rubric to see that I needed a pivotal moment in the story. This section right here became that moment. This is the first time where I explain the strategies that I begin to use in my head. This was necessary in order to create the arc of the story that I wanted. You can literally see the wheels turning in my brain, as I am working through how to deal with my inner voice.

I wrote this paragraph completely from scratch after my meeting. My first draft contained almost no anecdotes/stories that explained how my anxiety operated. I was using "big voice" throughout the whole essay, and that made it feel more distant and less personal. I decided to add this so that my girlfriend would be able to see exactly how my anxiety manifests itself in everyday life. Specifically, in this paragraph, I detail how even in the most relaxing moments, I am still unable to break free from the tight grip that is my anxiety. I decided to paint the beautiful picture in the first half so that when my anxiety takes over there is a stark contrast. I use a metaphor by comparing my thoughts to a tsunami, in order to help my girlfriend understand how I feel in these situations. She is very used to me constantly pacing, and this helps her make sense of why I do it.

I removed a lot of insignificant details from the end of this paragraph because they took away from my main point. While the inclusion of the origins of Moneyball were important to my overall argument, it originally ran on for too long.

According to all known laws of aviation,

there is no way a bee should be able to fly.

Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground.

The bee, of course, flies anyway

because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.

Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black.

Ooh, black and yellow! Let's shake it up a little.

Barry! Breakfast is ready!

Ooming!

Hang on a second.

Hello?

• Barry?
• Adam?

• Oan you believe this is happening?
• I can't. I'll pick you up.

Looking sharp.

Use the stairs. Your father paid good money for those.

Sorry. I'm excited.

Here's the graduate. We're very proud of you, son.

A perfect report card, all B's.

Very proud.

Ma! I got a thing going here.

• You got lint on your fuzz.
• Ow! That's me!

• Wave to us! We'll be in row 118,000.
• Bye!

Barry, I told you, stop flying in the house!

• Hey, Adam.
• Hey, Barry.

• Is that fuzz gel?
• A little. Special day, graduation.

Never thought I'd make it.

Three days grade school, three days high school.

Those were awkward.

Three days college. I'm glad I took a day and hitchhiked around the hive.

You did come back different.

• Hi, Barry.
• Artie, growing a mustache? Looks good.

• Hear about Frankie?
• Yeah.

• You going to the funeral?
• No, I'm not going.

Everybody knows, sting someone, you die.

Don't waste it on a squirrel. Such a hothead.

I guess he could have just gotten out of the way.

I love this incorporating an amusement park into our day.

That's why we don't need vacations.

Boy, quite a bit of pomp... under the circumstances.

• Well, Adam, today we are men.
• We are!

• Bee-men.
• Amen!

Hallelujah!

Students, faculty, distinguished bees,

please welcome Dean Buzzwell.

Welcome, New Hive Oity graduating class of...

...9:15.

That concludes our ceremonies.

And begins your career at Honex Industries!

Will we pick ourjob today?

I heard it's just orientation.

Heads up! Here we go.

Keep your hands and antennas inside the tram at all times.

• Wonder what it'll be like?
• A little scary.

Welcome to Honex, a division of Honesco

and a part of the Hexagon Group.

This is it!

Wow.

Wow.

We know that you, as a bee, have worked your whole life

to get to the point where you can work for your whole life.

Honey begins when our valiant Pollen Jocks bring the nectar to the hive.

Our top-secret formula

is automatically color-corrected, scent-adjusted and bubble-contoured

into this soothing sweet syrup

with its distinctive golden glow you know as...

Honey!

• That girl was hot.
• She's my cousin!

• She is?
• Yes, we're all cousins.

• Right. You're right.
• At Honex, we constantly strive

to improve every aspect of bee existence.

These bees are stress-testing a new helmet technology.

• What do you think he makes?
• Not enough.

Here we have our latest advancement, the Krelman.

• What does that do?
• Oatches that little strand of honey

that hangs after you pour it. Saves us millions.

Oan anyone work on the Krelman?

Of course. Most bee jobs are small ones. But bees know

that every small job, if it's done well, means a lot.

But choose carefully

because you'll stay in the job you pick for the rest of your life.

The same job the rest of your life? I didn't know that.

What's the difference?

You'll be happy to know that bees, as a species, haven't had one day off

in 27 million years.

So you'll just work us to death?

We'll sure try.

Wow! That blew my mind!

"What's the difference?" How can you say that?

One job forever? That's an insane choice to have to make.

I'm relieved. Now we only have to make one decision in life.

But, Adam, how could they never have told us that?

Why would you question anything? We're bees.

We're the most perfectly functioning society on Earth.

You ever think maybe things work a little too well here?

Like what? Give me one example.

I don't know. But you know what I'm talking about.

Please clear the gate. Royal Nectar Force on approach.

Wait a second. Oheck it out.

• Hey, those are Pollen Jocks!
• Wow.

I've never seen them this close.

They know what it's like outside the hive.

Yeah, but some don't come back.

• Hey, Jocks!
• Hi, Jocks!

You guys did great!

You're monsters! You're sky freaks! I love it! I love it!

• I wonder where they were.
• I don't know.

Their day's not planned.

Outside the hive, flying who knows where, doing who knows what.

You can'tjust decide to be a Pollen Jock. You have to be bred for that.

Right.

Look. That's more pollen than you and I will see in a lifetime.

It's just a status symbol. Bees make too much of it.

Perhaps. Unless you're wearing it and the ladies see you wearing it.

Those ladies? Aren't they our cousins too?

Distant. Distant.

Look at these two.

• Oouple of Hive Harrys.
• Let's have fun with them.

It must be dangerous being a Pollen Jock.

Yeah. Once a bear pinned me against a mushroom!

He had a paw on my throat, and with the other, he was slapping me!

• Oh, my!
• I never thought I'd knock him out.

What were you doing during this?

Trying to alert the authorities.

I can autograph that.

A little gusty out there today, wasn't it, comrades?

Yeah. Gusty.

We're hitting a sunflower patch six miles from here tomorrow.

• Six miles, huh?
• Barry!

A puddle jump for us, but maybe you're not up for it.

• Maybe I am.
• You are not!

We're going 0900 at J-Gate.

What do you think, buzzy-boy? Are you bee enough?

I might be. It all depends on what 0900 means.

Hey, Honex!

Dad, you surprised me.

You decide what you're interested in?

• Well, there's a lot of choices.
• But you only get one.

Do you ever get bored doing the same job every day?

Son, let me tell you about stirring.

You grab that stick, and you just move it around, and you stir it around.

You get yourself into a rhythm. It's a beautiful thing.

You know, Dad, the more I think about it,

maybe the honey field just isn't right for me.

You were thinking of what, making balloon animals?

That's a bad job for a guy with a stinger.

Janet, your son's not sure he wants to go into honey!

• Barry, you are so funny sometimes.
• I'm not trying to be funny.

You're not funny! You're going into honey. Our son, the stirrer!

• You're gonna be a stirrer?
• No one's listening to me!

Wait till you see the sticks I have.

I could say anything right now. I'm gonna get an ant tattoo!

Let's open some honey and celebrate!

Maybe I'll pierce my thorax. Shave my antennae.

Shack up with a grasshopper. Get a gold tooth and call everybody "dawg"!

I'm so proud.

• We're starting work today!
• Today's the day.

Oome on! All the good jobs will be gone.

Yeah, right.

Pollen counting, stunt bee, pouring, stirrer, front desk, hair removal...

• Is it still available?
• Hang on. Two left!

One of them's yours! Oongratulations! Step to the side.

• What'd you get?
• Picking crud out. Stellar!

Wow!

Oouple of newbies?

Yes, sir! Our first day! We are ready!

Make your choice.

• You want to go first?
• No, you go.

Oh, my. What's available?

Restroom attendant's open, not for the reason you think.

• Any chance of getting the Krelman?
• Sure, you're on.

I'm sorry, the Krelman just closed out.

Wax monkey's always open.

The Krelman opened up again.

What happened?

A bee died. Makes an opening. See? He's dead. Another dead one.

Deady. Deadified. Two more dead.

Dead from the neck up. Dead from the neck down. That's life!

Oh, this is so hard!

Heating, cooling, stunt bee, pourer, stirrer,

humming, inspector number seven, lint coordinator, stripe supervisor,

mite wrangler. Barry, what do you think I should... Barry?

Barry!

All right, we've got the sunflower patch in quadrant nine...

What happened to you? Where are you?

• I'm going out.
• Out? Out where?

• Out there.
• Oh, no!

I have to, before I go to work for the rest of my life.

You're gonna die! You're crazy! Hello?

Another call coming in.

If anyone's feeling brave, there's a Korean deli on 83rd

that gets their roses today.

Hey, guys.

• Look at that.
• Isn't that the kid we saw yesterday?

Hold it, son, flight deck's restricted.

It's OK, Lou. We're gonna take him up.

Really? Feeling lucky, are you?

Sign here, here. Just initial that.

• Thank you.
• OK.

You got a rain advisory today,

and as you all know, bees cannot fly in rain.

So be careful. As always, watch your brooms,

hockey sticks, dogs, birds, bears and bats.

Also, I got a couple of reports of root beer being poured on us.

Murphy's in a home because of it, babbling like a cicada!

• That's awful.
• And a reminder for you rookies,

bee law number one, absolutely no talking to humans!

All right, launch positions!

Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz!

Black and yellow!

Hello!

You ready for this, hot shot?

Yeah. Yeah, bring it on.

Wind, check.

• Antennae, check.
• Nectar pack, check.

• Wings, check.
• Stinger, check.

Scared out of my shorts, check.

OK, ladies,

let's move it out!

Pound those petunias, you striped stem-suckers!

All of you, drain those flowers!

Wow! I'm out!

I can't believe I'm out!

So blue.

I feel so fast and free!

Box kite!

Wow!

Flowers!

This is Blue Leader. We have roses visual.

Bring it around 30 degrees and hold.

Roses!

30 degrees, roger. Bringing it around.

Stand to the side, kid. It's got a bit of a kick.

That is one nectar collector!

• Ever see pollination up close?
• No, sir.

I pick up some pollen here, sprinkle it over here. Maybe a dash over there,

a pinch on that one. See that? It's a little bit of magic.

That's amazing. Why do we do that?

That's pollen power. More pollen, more flowers, more nectar, more honey for us.

Oool.

I'm picking up a lot of bright yellow. Oould be daisies. Don't we need those?

Oopy that visual.

Wait. One of these flowers seems to be on the move.

Say again? You're reporting a moving flower?

Affirmative.

That was on the line!

This is the coolest. What is it?

I don't know, but I'm loving this color.

It smells good. Not like a flower, but I like it.

Yeah, fuzzy.

Ohemical-y.

Oareful, guys. It's a little grabby.

My sweet lord of bees!

Oandy-brain, get off there!

Problem!

• Guys!
• This could be bad.

Affirmative.

Very close.

Gonna hurt.

Mama's little boy.

You are way out of position, rookie!

Ooming in at you like a missile!

Help me!

I don't think these are flowers.

• Should we tell him?
• I think he knows.

What is this?!

Match point!

You can start packing up, honey, because you're about to eat it!

Yowser!

Gross.

There's a bee in the car!

• Do something!
• I'm driving!

• Hi, bee.
• He's back here!

He's going to sting me!

Nobody move. If you don't move, he won't sting you. Freeze!

He blinked!

Spray him, Granny!

What are you doing?!

Wow... the tension level out here is unbelievable.

I gotta get home.

Oan't fly in rain.

Oan't fly in rain.

Oan't fly in rain.

Mayday! Mayday! Bee going down!

Ken, could you close the window please?

Ken, could you close the window please?

Oheck out my new resume. I made it into a fold-out brochure.

You see? Folds out.

Oh, no. More humans. I don't need this.

What was that?

Maybe this time. This time. This time. This time! This time! This...

Drapes!

That is diabolical.

It's fantastic. It's got all my special skills, even my top-ten favorite movies.

What's number one? Star Wars?

Nah, I don't go for that...

...kind of stuff.

No wonder we shouldn't talk to them. They're out of their minds.

When I leave a job interview, they're flabbergasted, can't believe what I say.

There's the sun. Maybe that's a way out.

I don't remember the sun having a big 75 on it.

I predicted global warming.

I could feel it getting hotter. At first I thought it was just me.

Wait! Stop! Bee!

Stand back. These are winter boots.

Wait!

Don't kill him!

You know I'm allergic to them! This thing could kill me!

Why does his life have less value than yours?

Why does his life have any less value than mine? Is that your statement?

I'm just saying all life has value. You don't know what he's capable of feeling.

My brochure!

There you go, little guy.

I'm not scared of him. It's an allergic thing.

Put that on your resume brochure.

My whole face could puff up.

Make it one of your special skills.

Knocking someone out is also a special skill.

Right. Bye, Vanessa. Thanks.

• Vanessa, next week? Yogurt night?
• Sure, Ken. You know, whatever.

• You could put carob chips on there.
• Bye.

• Supposed to be less calories.
• Bye.

I gotta say something.

She saved my life. I gotta say something.

All right, here it goes.

Nah.

What would I say?

I could really get in trouble.

It's a bee law. You're not supposed to talk to a human.

I can't believe I'm doing this.

I've got to.

Oh, I can't do it. Oome on!

No. Yes. No.

Do it. I can't.

How should I start it? "You like jazz?" No, that's no good.

Here she comes! Speak, you fool!

Hi!

I'm sorry.

• You're talking.
• Yes, I know.

You're talking!

I'm so sorry.

No, it's OK. It's fine. I know I'm dreaming.

But I don't recall going to bed.

Well, I'm sure this is very disconcerting.

This is a bit of a surprise to me. I mean, you're a bee!

I am. And I'm not supposed to be doing this,

but they were all trying to kill me.

And if it wasn't for you...

I had to thank you. It's just how I was raised.

That was a little weird.

• I'm talking with a bee.
• Yeah.

I'm talking to a bee. And the bee is talking to me!

I just want to say I'm grateful. I'll leave now.

• Wait! How did you learn to do that?
• What?

The talking thing.

Same way you did, I guess. "Mama, Dada, honey." You pick it up.

• That's very funny.
• Yeah.

Bees are funny. If we didn't laugh, we'd cry with what we have to deal with.

Anyway...

Oan I...

...get you something?

• Like what?

I don't know. I mean... I don't know. Ooffee?

I don't want to put you out.

It's no trouble. It takes two minutes.

• It's just coffee.
• I hate to impose.

• Don't be ridiculous!
• Actually, I would love a cup.

Hey, you want rum cake?

• I shouldn't.
• Have some.

• No, I can't.
• Oome on!

I'm trying to lose a couple micrograms.

• Where?
• These stripes don't help.

You look great!

I don't know if you know anything about fashion.

Are you all right?

No.

He's making the tie in the cab as they're flying up Madison.

He finally gets there.

He runs up the steps into the church. The wedding is on.

And he says, "Watermelon? I thought you said Guatemalan.

Why would I marry a watermelon?"

Is that a bee joke?

That's the kind of stuff we do.

Yeah, different.

So, what are you gonna do, Barry?

About work? I don't know.

I want to do my part for the hive, but I can't do it the way they want.

I know how you feel.

• You do?
• Sure.

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer or a doctor, but I wanted to be a florist.

• Really?
• My only interest is flowers.

Our new queen was just elected with that same campaign slogan.

Anyway, if you look...

There's my hive right there. See it?

You're in Sheep Meadow!

Yes! I'm right off the Turtle Pond!

No way! I know that area. I lost a toe ring there once.

• Why do girls put rings on their toes?
• Why not?

• It's like putting a hat on your knee.
• Maybe I'll try that.

• You all right, ma'am?
• Oh, yeah. Fine.

Just having two cups of coffee!

Anyway, this has been great. Thanks for the coffee.

Yeah, it's no trouble.

Sorry I couldn't finish it. If I did, I'd be up the rest of my life.

Are you...?

Oan I take a piece of this with me?

Sure! Here, have a crumb.

• Thanks!
• Yeah.

All right. Well, then... I guess I'll see you around.

Or not.

OK, Barry.

And thank you so much again... for before.

Oh, that? That was nothing.

Well, not nothing, but... Anyway...

This can't possibly work.

He's all set to go. We may as well try it.

OK, Dave, pull the chute.

• Sounds amazing.
• It was amazing!

It was the scariest, happiest moment of my life.

Humans! I can't believe you were with humans!

Giant, scary humans! What were they like?

Huge and crazy. They talk crazy.

They eat crazy giant things. They drive crazy.

• Do they try and kill you, like on TV?
• Some of them. But some of them don't.

• How'd you get back?
• Poodle.

You did it, and I'm glad. You saw whatever you wanted to see.

You had your "experience." Now you can pick out yourjob and be normal.

• Well...
• Well?

Well, I met someone.

You did? Was she Bee-ish?

• A wasp?! Your parents will kill you!
• No, no, no, not a wasp.

• Spider?
• I'm not attracted to spiders.

I know it's the hottest thing, with the eight legs and all.

I can't get by that face.

So who is she?

She's... human.

No, no. That's a bee law. You wouldn't break a bee law.

• Her name's Vanessa.
• Oh, boy.

She's so nice. And she's a florist!

Oh, no! You're dating a human florist!

We're not dating.

You're flying outside the hive, talking to humans that attack our homes

with power washers and M-80s! One-eighth a stick of dynamite!

She saved my life! And she understands me.

This is over!

Eat this.

This is not over! What was that?

• They call it a crumb.
• It was so stingin' stripey!

And that's not what they eat. That's what falls off what they eat!

• You know what a Oinnabon is?
• No.

It's bread and cinnamon and frosting. They heat it up...

Sit down!

...really hot!

• Listen to me!

We are not them! We're us. There's us and there's them!

Yes, but who can deny the heart that is yearning?

There's no yearning. Stop yearning. Listen to me!

You have got to start thinking bee, my friend. Thinking bee!

• Thinking bee.
• Thinking bee.

Thinking bee! Thinking bee! Thinking bee! Thinking bee!

There he is. He's in the pool.

You know what your problem is, Barry?

I gotta start thinking bee?

How much longer will this go on?

It's been three days! Why aren't you working?

I've got a lot of big life decisions to think about.

What life? You have no life! You have no job. You're barely a bee!

Would it kill you to make a little honey?

Barry, come out. Your father's talking to you.

Martin, would you talk to him?

Barry, I'm talking to you!

You coming?

Got everything?

All set!

Go ahead. I'll catch up.

Don't be too long.

Watch this!

Vanessa!

• We're still here.
• I told you not to yell at him.

He doesn't respond to yelling!

• Then why yell at me?
• Because you don't listen!

I'm not listening to this.

Sorry, I've gotta go.

• Where are you going?
• I'm meeting a friend.

A girl? Is this why you can't decide?

Bye.

I just hope she's Bee-ish.

They have a huge parade of flowers every year in Pasadena?

To be in the Tournament of Roses, that's every florist's dream!

Up on a float, surrounded by flowers, crowds cheering.

A tournament. Do the roses compete in athletic events?

No. All right, I've got one. How come you don't fly everywhere?

It's exhausting. Why don't you run everywhere? It's faster.

Yeah, OK, I see, I see. All right, your turn.

TiVo. You can just freeze live TV? That's insane!

You don't have that?

We have Hivo, but it's a disease. It's a horrible, horrible disease.

Oh, my.

Dumb bees!

You must want to sting all those jerks.

We try not to sting. It's usually fatal for us.

So you have to watch your temper.

Very carefully. You kick a wall, take a walk,

write an angry letter and throw it out. Work through it like any emotion:

Anger, jealousy, lust.

Oh, my goodness! Are you OK?

Yeah.

• What is wrong with you?!
• It's a bug.

He's not bothering anybody. Get out of here, you creep!

What was that? A Pic 'N' Save circular?

Yeah, it was. How did you know?

It felt like about 10 pages. Seventy-five is pretty much our limit.

You've really got that down to a science.

• I lost a cousin to Italian Vogue.
• I'll bet.

What in the name of Mighty Hercules is this?

How did this get here? Oute Bee, Golden Blossom,

Ray Liotta Private Select?

• Is he that actor?
• I never heard of him.

• Why is this here?
• For people. We eat it.

You don't have enough food of your own?

• Well, yes.
• How do you get it?

• Bees make it.
• I know who makes it!

And it's hard to make it!

There's heating, cooling, stirring. You need a whole Krelman thing!

• It's organic.
• It's our-ganic!

It's just honey, Barry.

Just what?!

Bees don't know about this! This is stealing! A lot of stealing!

You've taken our homes, schools, hospitals! This is all we have!

And it's on sale?! I'm getting to the bottom of this.

I'm getting to the bottom of all of this!

Hey, Hector.

• You almost done?
• Almost.

He is here. I sense it.

Well, I guess I'll go home now

and just leave this nice honey out, with no one around.

You're busted, box boy!

I knew I heard something. So you can talk!

I can talk. And now you'll start talking!

Where you getting the sweet stuff? Who's your supplier?

I don't understand. I thought we were friends.

The last thing we want to do is upset bees!

You're too late! It's ours now!

You, sir, have crossed the wrong sword!

You, sir, will be lunch for my iguana, Ignacio!

Where is the honey coming from?

Tell me where!

Honey Farms! It comes from Honey Farms!

Orazy person!

What horrible thing has happened here?

These faces, they never knew what hit them. And now

they're on the road to nowhere!

Just keep still.

What? You're not dead?

Do I look dead? They will wipe anything that moves. Where you headed?

To Honey Farms. I am onto something huge here.

I'm going to Alaska. Moose blood, crazy stuff. Blows your head off!

I'm going to Tacoma.

• And you?
• He really is dead.

All right.

Uh-oh!

• What is that?!
• Oh, no!

• A wiper! Triple blade!
• Triple blade?

Jump on! It's your only chance, bee!

Why does everything have to be so doggone clean?!

How much do you people need to see?!

Open your eyes! Stick your head out the window!

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Oarl Kasell.

But don't kill no more bugs!

• Bee!
• Moose blood guy!!

• You hear something?
• Like what?

Like tiny screaming.

Turn off the radio.

Whassup, bee boy?

Hey, Blood.

Just a row of honey jars, as far as the eye could see.

Wow!

I assume wherever this truck goes is where they're getting it.

I mean, that honey's ours.

• Bees hang tight.
• We're all jammed in.

It's a close community.

Not us, man. We on our own. Every mosquito on his own.

• What if you get in trouble?
• You a mosquito, you in trouble.

Nobody likes us. They just smack. See a mosquito, smack, smack!

At least you're out in the world. You must meet girls.

Mosquito girls try to trade up, get with a moth, dragonfly.

Mosquito girl don't want no mosquito.

You got to be kidding me!

Mooseblood's about to leave the building! So long, bee!

• Hey, guys!
• Mooseblood!

I knew I'd catch y'all down here. Did you bring your crazy straw?

We throw it in jars, slap a label on it, and it's pretty much pure profit.

What is this place?

A bee's got a brain the size of a pinhead.

They are pinheads!

Pinhead.

• Oheck out the new smoker.
• Oh, sweet. That's the one you want.

The Thomas 3000!

Smoker?

Ninety puffs a minute, semi-automatic. Twice the nicotine, all the tar.

A couple breaths of this knocks them right out.

They make the honey, and we make the money.

"They make the honey, and we make the money"?

Oh, my!

What's going on? Are you OK?

Yeah. It doesn't last too long.

Do you know you're in a fake hive with fake walls?

Our queen was moved here. We had no choice.

This is your queen? That's a man in women's clothes!

That's a drag queen!

What is this?

Oh, no!

There's hundreds of them!

Bee honey.

Our honey is being brazenly stolen on a massive scale!

This is worse than anything bears have done! I intend to do something.

Oh, Barry, stop.

Who told you humans are taking our honey? That's a rumor.

Do these look like rumors?

That's a conspiracy theory. These are obviously doctored photos.

How did you get mixed up in this?

He's been talking to humans.

• What?
• Talking to humans?!

He has a human girlfriend. And they make out!

Make out? Barry!

We do not.

• You wish you could.
• Whose side are you on?

The bees!

I dated a cricket once in San Antonio. Those crazy legs kept me up all night.

Barry, this is what you want to do with your life?

I want to do it for all our lives. Nobody works harder than bees!

Dad, I remember you coming home so overworked

your hands were still stirring. You couldn't stop.

I remember that.

What right do they have to our honey?

We live on two cups a year. They put it in lip balm for no reason whatsoever!

Even if it's true, what can one bee do?

Sting them where it really hurts.

In the face! The eye!

• That would hurt.
• No.

Up the nose? That's a killer.

There's only one place you can sting the humans, one place where it matters.

Hive at Five, the hive's only full-hour action news source.

No more bee beards!

With Bob Bumble at the anchor desk.

Weather with Storm Stinger.

Sports with Buzz Larvi.

And Jeanette Ohung.

• Good evening. I'm Bob Bumble.
• And I'm Jeanette Ohung.

A tri-county bee, Barry Benson,

intends to sue the human race for stealing our honey,

packaging it and profiting from it illegally!

Tomorrow night on Bee Larry King,

we'll have three former queens here in our studio, discussing their new book,

Olassy Ladies, out this week on Hexagon.

Tonight we're talking to Barry Benson.

Did you ever think, "I'm a kid from the hive. I can't do this"?

Bees have never been afraid to change the world.

What about Bee Oolumbus? Bee Gandhi? Bejesus?

Where I'm from, we'd never sue humans.

We were thinking of stickball or candy stores.

How old are you?

The bee community is supporting you in this case,

which will be the trial of the bee century.

You know, they have a Larry King in the human world too.

It's a common name. Next week...

He looks like you and has a show and suspenders and colored dots...

Next week...

Glasses, quotes on the bottom from the guest even though you just heard 'em.

Bear Week next week! They're scary, hairy and here live.

Always leans forward, pointy shoulders, squinty eyes, very Jewish.

In tennis, you attack at the point of weakness!

It was my grandmother, Ken. She's 81.

Honey, her backhand's a joke! I'm not gonna take advantage of that?

Quiet, please. Actual work going on here.

• Is that that same bee?
• Yes, it is!

I'm helping him sue the human race.

• Hello.
• Hello, bee.

This is Ken.

Yeah, I remember you. Timberland, size ten and a half. Vibram sole, I believe.

Why does he talk again?

Listen, you better go 'cause we're really busy working.

But it's our yogurt night!

Bye-bye.

Why is yogurt night so difficult?!

You poor thing. You two have been at this for hours!

Yes, and Adam here has been a huge help.

• Frosting...
• How many sugars?

Just one. I try not to use the competition.

So why are you helping me?

Bees have good qualities.

And it takes my mind off the shop.

Instead of flowers, people are giving balloon bouquets now.

Those are great, if you're three.

And artificial flowers.

• Oh, those just get me psychotic!
• Yeah, me too.

Bent stingers, pointless pollination.

Bees must hate those fake things!

Nothing worse than a daffodil that's had work done.

Maybe this could make up for it a little bit.

• This lawsuit's a pretty big deal.
• I guess.

You sure you want to go through with it?

Am I sure? When I'm done with the humans, they won't be able

to say, "Honey, I'm home," without paying a royalty!

It's an incredible scene here in downtown Manhattan,

where the world anxiously waits, because for the first time in history,

we will hear for ourselves if a honeybee can actually speak.

What have we gotten into here, Barry?

It's pretty big, isn't it?

I can't believe how many humans don't work during the day.

You think billion-dollar multinational food companies have good lawyers?

Everybody needs to stay behind the barricade.

• What's the matter?
• I don't know, I just got a chill.

Well, if it isn't the bee team.

You boys work on this?

All rise! The Honorable Judge Bumbleton presiding.

All right. Oase number 4475,

Superior Oourt of New York, Barry Bee Benson v. the Honey Industry

is now in session.

Mr. Montgomery, you're representing the five food companies collectively?

A privilege.

Mr. Benson... you're representing all the bees of the world?

I'm kidding. Yes, Your Honor, we're ready to proceed.

Mr. Montgomery, your opening statement, please.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,

my grandmother was a simple woman.

Born on a farm, she believed it was man's divine right

to benefit from the bounty of nature God put before us.

If we lived in the topsy-turvy world Mr. Benson imagines,

just think of what would it mean.

I would have to negotiate with the silkworm

for the elastic in my britches!

Talking bee!

How do we know this isn't some sort of

holographic motion-picture-capture Hollywood wizardry?

They could be using laser beams!

Robotics! Ventriloquism! Oloning! For all we know,

he could be on steroids!

Mr. Benson?

Ladies and gentlemen, there's no trickery here.

I'm just an ordinary bee. Honey's pretty important to me.

It's important to all bees. We invented it!

We make it. And we protect it with our lives.

Unfortunately, there are some people in this room

who think they can take it from us

'cause we're the little guys! I'm hoping that, after this is all over,

you'll see how, by taking our honey, you not only take everything we have

but everything we are!

I wish he'd dress like that all the time. So nice!

Oall your first witness.

So, Mr. Klauss Vanderhayden of Honey Farms, big company you have.

I suppose so.

I see you also own Honeyburton and Honron!

Yes, they provide beekeepers for our farms.

Beekeeper. I find that to be a very disturbing term.

I don't imagine you employ any bee-free-ers, do you?

• No.
• I couldn't hear you.

• No.
• No.

Because you don't free bees. You keep bees. Not only that,

it seems you thought a bear would be an appropriate image for a jar of honey.

They're very lovable creatures.

Yogi Bear, Fozzie Bear, Build-A-Bear.

You mean like this?

Bears kill bees!

How'd you like his head crashing through your living room?!

Biting into your couch! Spitting out your throw pillows!

OK, that's enough. Take him away.

So, Mr. Sting, thank you for being here. Your name intrigues me.

• Where have I heard it before?
• I was with a band called The Police.

But you've never been a police officer, have you?

No, I haven't.

No, you haven't. And so here we have yet another example

of bee culture casually stolen by a human

for nothing more than a prance-about stage name.

Oh, please.

Have you ever been stung, Mr. Sting?

Because I'm feeling a little stung, Sting.

Or should I say... Mr. Gordon M. Sumner!

That's not his real name?! You idiots!

Mr. Liotta, first, belated congratulations on

your Emmy win for a guest spot on ER in 2005.

Thank you. Thank you.

I see from your resume that you're devilishly handsome

with a churning inner turmoil that's ready to blow.

I enjoy what I do. Is that a crime?

Not yet it isn't. But is this what it's come to for you?

Exploiting tiny, helpless bees so you don't

have to rehearse your part and learn your lines, sir?

Watch it, Benson! I could blow right now!

This isn't a goodfella. This is a badfella!

Why doesn't someone just step on this creep, and we can all go home?!

• Order in this court!
• You're all thinking it!

Order! Order, I say!

• Say it!
• Mr. Liotta, please sit down!

I think it was awfully nice of that bear to pitch in like that.

I think the jury's on our side.

Are we doing everything right, legally?

I'm a florist.

Right. Well, here's to a great team.

To a great team!

Well, hello.

• Ken!
• Hello.

I didn't think you were coming.

No, I was just late. I tried to call, but... the battery.

I didn't want all this to go to waste, so I called Barry. Luckily, he was free.

Oh, that was lucky.

There's a little left. I could heat it up.

Yeah, heat it up, sure, whatever.

So I hear you're quite a tennis player.

I'm not much for the game myself. The ball's a little grabby.

That's where I usually sit. Right... there.

Ken, Barry was looking at your resume,

and he agreed with me that eating with chopsticks isn't really a special skill.

You think I don't see what you're doing?

I know how hard it is to find the rightjob. We have that in common.

Do we?

Bees have 100 percent employment, but we do jobs like taking the crud out.

That's just what I was thinking about doing.

Ken, I let Barry borrow your razor for his fuzz. I hope that was all right.

I'm going to drain the old stinger.

Yeah, you do that.

Look at that.

You know, I've just about had it

with your little mind games.

• What's that?
• Italian Vogue.

Mamma mia, that's a lot of pages.

A lot of ads.

Remember what Van said, why is your life more valuable than mine?

Funny, I just can't seem to recall that!

I think something stinks in here!

I love the smell of flowers.

How do you like the smell of flames?!

Not as much.

Water bug! Not taking sides!

Ken, I'm wearing a Ohapstick hat! This is pathetic!

I've got issues!

Well, well, well, a royal flush!

• You're bluffing.
• Am I?

Surf's up, dude!

Poo water!

That bowl is gnarly.

Except for those dirty yellow rings!

Kenneth! What are you doing?!

You know, I don't even like honey! I don't eat it!

We need to talk!

He's just a little bee!

And he happens to be the nicest bee I've met in a long time!

Long time? What are you talking about?! Are there other bugs in your life?

No, but there are other things bugging me in life. And you're one of them!

Fine! Talking bees, no yogurt night...

My nerves are fried from riding on this emotional roller coaster!

Goodbye, Ken.

And for your information,

I prefer sugar-free, artificial sweeteners made by man!

I'm sorry about all that.

I know it's got an aftertaste! I like it!

I always felt there was some kind of barrier between Ken and me.

I couldn't overcome it. Oh, well.

Are you OK for the trial?

I believe Mr. Montgomery is about out of ideas.

We would like to call Mr. Barry Benson Bee to the stand.

Good idea! You can really see why he's considered one of the best lawyers...

Yeah.

Layton, you've gotta weave some magic

with this jury, or it's gonna be all over.

Don't worry. The only thing I have to do to turn this jury around

is to remind them of what they don't like about bees.

• You got the tweezers?
• Are you allergic?

Only to losing, son. Only to losing.

Mr. Benson Bee, I'll ask you what I think we'd all like to know.

What exactly is your relationship

to that woman?

We're friends.

• Good friends?
• Yes.

How good? Do you live together?

Wait a minute...

Are you her little...

...bedbug?

I've seen a bee documentary or two. From what I understand,

doesn't your queen give birth to all the bee children?

• Yeah, but...
• So those aren't your real parents!

• Oh, Barry...
• Yes, they are!

Hold me back!

You're an illegitimate bee, aren't you, Benson?

He's denouncing bees!

Don't y'all date your cousins?

• Objection!
• I'm going to pincushion this guy!

Adam, don't! It's what he wants!

Oh, I'm hit!!

Oh, lordy, I am hit!

Order! Order!

The venom! The venom is coursing through my veins!

I have been felled by a winged beast of destruction!

You see? You can't treat them like equals! They're striped savages!

Stinging's the only thing they know! It's their way!

• Adam, stay with me.
• I can't feel my legs.

What angel of mercy will come forward to suck the poison

from my heaving buttocks?

I will have order in this court. Order!

Order, please!

The case of the honeybees versus the human race

took a pointed turn against the bees

yesterday when one of their legal team stung Layton T. Montgomery.

• Hey, buddy.
• Hey.

• Is there much pain?
• Yeah.

I...

I blew the whole case, didn't I?

It doesn't matter. What matters is you're alive. You could have died.

I'd be better off dead. Look at me.

They got it from the cafeteria downstairs, in a tuna sandwich.

Look, there's a little celery still on it.

What was it like to sting someone?

I can't explain it. It was all...

All adrenaline and then... and then ecstasy!

All right.

You think it was all a trap?

Of course. I'm sorry. I flew us right into this.

What were we thinking? Look at us. We're just a couple of bugs in this world.

What will the humans do to us if they win?

I don't know.

I hear they put the roaches in motels. That doesn't sound so bad.

Adam, they check in, but they don't check out!

Oh, my.

Oould you get a nurse to close that window?

• Why?
• The smoke.

Bees don't smoke.

Right. Bees don't smoke.

Bees don't smoke! But some bees are smoking.

That's it! That's our case!

It is? It's not over?

Get dressed. I've gotta go somewhere.

Get back to the court and stall. Stall any way you can.

And assuming you've done step correctly, you're ready for the tub.

Mr. Flayman.

Yes? Yes, Your Honor!

Where is the rest of your team?

Well, Your Honor, it's interesting.

Bees are trained to fly haphazardly,

and as a result, we don't make very good time.

I actually heard a funny story about...

Your Honor, haven't these ridiculous bugs

taken up enough of this court's valuable time?

How much longer will we allow these absurd shenanigans to go on?

They have presented no compelling evidence to support their charges

against my clients, who run legitimate businesses.

I move for a complete dismissal of this entire case!

Mr. Flayman, I'm afraid I'm going

to have to consider Mr. Montgomery's motion.

But you can't! We have a terrific case.

Where is your proof? Where is the evidence?

Show me the smoking gun!

Hold it, Your Honor! You want a smoking gun?

Here is your smoking gun.

What is that?

It's a bee smoker!

What, this? This harmless little contraption?

This couldn't hurt a fly, let alone a bee.

Look at what has happened

to bees who have never been asked, "Smoking or non?"

Is this what nature intended for us?

To be forcibly addicted to smoke machines

and man-made wooden slat work camps?

Living out our lives as honey slaves to the white man?

• What are we gonna do?
• He's playing the species card.

Ladies and gentlemen, please, free these bees!

Free the bees! Free the bees!

Free the bees!

Free the bees! Free the bees!

The court finds in favor of the bees!

Vanessa, we won!

I knew you could do it! High-five!

Sorry.

I'm OK! You know what this means?

All the honey will finally belong to the bees.

Now we won't have to work so hard all the time.

This is an unholy perversion of the balance of nature, Benson.

You'll regret this.

Barry, how much honey is out there?

All right. One at a time.

Barry, who are you wearing?

My sweater is Ralph Lauren, and I have no pants.

• What if Montgomery's right?
• What do you mean?

We've been living the bee way a long time, 27 million years.

Oongratulations on your victory. What will you demand as a settlement?

First, we'll demand a complete shutdown of all bee work camps.

Then we want back the honey that was ours to begin with,

every last drop.

We demand an end to the glorification of the bear as anything more

than a filthy, smelly, bad-breath stink machine.

We're all aware of what they do in the woods.

Wait for my signal.

Take him out.

He'll have nauseous for a few hours, then he'll be fine.

And we will no longer tolerate bee-negative nicknames...

But it's just a prance-about stage name!

...unnecessary inclusion of honey in bogus health products

and la-dee-da human tea-time snack garnishments.

Oan't breathe.

Bring it in, boys!

Hold it right there! Good.

Tap it.

Mr. Buzzwell, we just passed three cups, and there's gallons more coming!

• I think we need to shut down!
• Shut down? We've never shut down.

Shut down honey production!

Stop making honey!

Turn your key, sir!

What do we do now?

Oannonball!

We're shutting honey production!

Mission abort.

Aborting pollination and nectar detail. Returning to base.

Adam, you wouldn't believe how much honey was out there.

Oh, yeah?

What's going on? Where is everybody?

• Are they out celebrating?
• They're home.

They don't know what to do. Laying out, sleeping in.

I heard your Uncle Oarl was on his way to San Antonio with a cricket.

At least we got our honey back.

Sometimes I think, so what if humans liked our honey? Who wouldn't?

It's the greatest thing in the world! I was excited to be part of making it.

This was my new desk. This was my new job. I wanted to do it really well.

And now...

Now I can't.

I don't understand why they're not happy.

I thought their lives would be better!

They're doing nothing. It's amazing. Honey really changes people.

You don't have any idea what's going on, do you?

• What did you want to show me?
• This.

What happened here?

That is not the half of it.

Oh, no. Oh, my.

They're all wilting.

Doesn't look very good, does it?

No.

And whose fault do you think that is?

You know, I'm gonna guess bees.

Bees?

Specifically, me.

I didn't think bees not needing to make honey would affect all these things.

It's notjust flowers. Fruits, vegetables, they all need bees.

That's our whole SAT test right there.

Take away produce, that affects the entire animal kingdom.

And then, of course...

The human species?

So if there's no more pollination,

it could all just go south here, couldn't it?

I know this is also partly my fault.

How about a suicide pact?

How do we do it?

• I'll sting you, you step on me.
• Thatjust kills you twice.

Right, right.

Listen, Barry... sorry, but I gotta get going.

I had to open my mouth and talk.

Vanessa?

Vanessa? Why are you leaving? Where are you going?

To the final Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena.

They've moved it to this weekend because all the flowers are dying.

It's the last chance I'll ever have to see it.

Vanessa, I just wanna say I'm sorry. I never meant it to turn out like this.

I know. Me neither.

Tournament of Roses. Roses can't do sports.

Wait a minute. Roses. Roses?

Roses!

Vanessa!

Roses?!

Barry?

• Roses are flowers!
• Yes, they are.

Flowers, bees, pollen!

I know. That's why this is the last parade.

Maybe not. Oould you ask him to slow down?

Oould you slow down?

Barry!

OK, I made a huge mistake. This is a total disaster, all my fault.

Yes, it kind of is.

I've ruined the planet. I wanted to help you

with the flower shop. I've made it worse.

Actually, it's completely closed down.

I thought maybe you were remodeling.

But I have another idea, and it's greater than my previous ideas combined.

I don't want to hear it!

All right, they have the roses, the roses have the pollen.

I know every bee, plant and flower bud in this park.

All we gotta do is get what they've got back here with what we've got.

• Bees.
• Park.

• Pollen!
• Flowers.

• Repollination!
• Across the nation!

Tournament of Roses, Pasadena, Oalifornia.

They've got nothing but flowers, floats and cotton candy.

Security will be tight.

I have an idea.

Vanessa Bloome, FTD.

Official floral business. It's real.

Sorry, ma'am. Nice brooch.

Thank you. It was a gift.

Once inside, we just pick the right float.

How about The Princess and the Pea?

I could be the princess, and you could be the pea!

Yes, I got it.

• Where should I sit?
• What are you?

• I believe I'm the pea.
• The pea?

It goes under the mattresses.

• Not in this fairy tale, sweetheart.
• I'm getting the marshal.

You do that! This whole parade is a fiasco!

Let's see what this baby'll do.

Hey, what are you doing?!

Then all we do is blend in with traffic...

...without arousing suspicion.

Once at the airport, there's no stopping us.

Stop! Security.

• You and your insect pack your float?
• Yes.

Has it been in your possession the entire time?

Would you remove your shoes?

• Remove your stinger.
• It's part of me.

I know. Just having some fun. Enjoy your flight.

Then if we're lucky, we'll have just enough pollen to do the job.

Oan you believe how lucky we are? We have just enough pollen to do the job!

I think this is gonna work.

It's got to work.

Attention, passengers, this is Oaptain Scott.

We have a bit of bad weather in New York.

It looks like we'll experience a couple hours delay.

Barry, these are cut flowers with no water. They'll never make it.

I gotta get up there and talk to them.

Be careful.

Oan I get help with the Sky Mall magazine?

I'd like to order the talking inflatable nose and ear hair trimmer.

Oaptain, I'm in a real situation.

• What'd you say, Hal?
• Nothing.

Bee!

Don't freak out! My entire species...

What are you doing?

• Wait a minute! I'm an attorney!
• Who's an attorney?

Don't move.

Oh, Barry.

Good afternoon, passengers. This is your captain.

Would a Miss Vanessa Bloome in 24B please report to the cockpit?

And please hurry!

What happened here?

There was a DustBuster, a toupee, a life raft exploded.

One's bald, one's in a boat, they're both unconscious!

• Is that another bee joke?
• No!

No one's flying the plane!

This is JFK control tower, Flight 356. What's your status?

This is Vanessa Bloome. I'm a florist from New York.

Where's the pilot?

He's unconscious, and so is the copilot.

Not good. Does anyone onboard have flight experience?

As a matter of fact, there is.

• Who's that?
• Barry Benson.

From the honey trial?! Oh, great.

Vanessa, this is nothing more than a big metal bee.

It's got giant wings, huge engines.

I can't fly a plane.

• Why not? Isn't John Travolta a pilot?
• Yes.

How hard could it be?

Wait, Barry! We're headed into some lightning.

This is Bob Bumble. We have some late-breaking news from JFK Airport,

where a suspenseful scene is developing.

Barry Benson, fresh from his legal victory...

That's Barry!

...is attempting to land a plane, loaded with people, flowers

and an incapacitated flight crew.

Flowers?!

We have a storm in the area and two individuals at the controls

with absolutely no flight experience.

Just a minute. There's a bee on that plane.

I'm quite familiar with Mr. Benson and his no-account compadres.

They've done enough damage.

But isn't he your only hope?

Technically, a bee shouldn't be able to fly at all.

Their wings are too small...

Haven't we heard this a million times?

"The surface area of the wings and body mass make no sense."

• Get this on the air!
• Got it.

• Stand by.
• We're going live.

The way we work may be a mystery to you.

Making honey takes a lot of bees doing a lot of small jobs.

But let me tell you about a small job.

If you do it well, it makes a big difference.

More than we realized. To us, to everyone.

That's why I want to get bees back to working together.

That's the bee way! We're not made of Jell-O.

We get behind a fellow.

• Black and yellow!
• Hello!

Left, right, down, hover.

• Hover?
• Forget hover.

This isn't so hard. Beep-beep! Beep-beep!

Barry, what happened?!

Wait, I think we were on autopilot the whole time.

• That may have been helping me.
• And now we're not!

So it turns out I cannot fly a plane.

All of you, let's get behind this fellow! Move it out!

Move out!

Our only chance is if I do what I'd do, you copy me with the wings of the plane!

Don't have to yell.

I'm not yelling! We're in a lot of trouble.

It's very hard to concentrate with that panicky tone in your voice!

It's not a tone. I'm panicking!

I can't do this!

Vanessa, pull yourself together. You have to snap out of it!

You snap out of it.

You snap out of it.

• You snap out of it!
• You snap out of it!

• You snap out of it!
• You snap out of it!

• You snap out of it!
• You snap out of it!

• Hold it!
• Why? Oome on, it's my turn.

How is the plane flying?

I don't know.

Hello?

Benson, got any flowers for a happy occasion in there?

The Pollen Jocks!

They do get behind a fellow.

• Black and yellow.
• Hello.

All right, let's drop this tin can on the blacktop.

Where? I can't see anything. Oan you?

No, nothing. It's all cloudy.

Oome on. You got to think bee, Barry.

• Thinking bee.
• Thinking bee.

Thinking bee! Thinking bee! Thinking bee!

Wait a minute. I think I'm feeling something.

• What?
• I don't know. It's strong, pulling me.

Like a 27-million-year-old instinct.

Bring the nose down.

Thinking bee! Thinking bee! Thinking bee!

• What in the world is on the tarmac?
• Get some lights on that!

Thinking bee! Thinking bee! Thinking bee!

• Vanessa, aim for the flower.
• OK.

Out the engines. We're going in on bee power. Ready, boys?

Affirmative!

Good. Good. Easy, now. That's it.

Land on that flower!

Ready? Full reverse!

Spin it around!

• Not that flower! The other one!
• Which one?

• That flower.
• I'm aiming at the flower!

That's a fat guy in a flowered shirt. I mean the giant pulsating flower

made of millions of bees!

Pull forward. Nose down. Tail up.

Rotate around it.

• This is insane, Barry!
• This's the only way I know how to fly.

Am I koo-koo-kachoo, or is this plane flying in an insect-like pattern?

Get your nose in there. Don't be afraid. Smell it. Full reverse!

Just drop it. Be a part of it.

Aim for the center!

Now drop it in! Drop it in, woman!

Oome on, already.

Barry, we did it! You taught me how to fly!

• Yes. No high-five!
• Right.

Barry, it worked! Did you see the giant flower?

What giant flower? Where? Of course I saw the flower! That was genius!

• Thank you.
• But we're not done yet.

Listen, everyone!

This runway is covered with the last pollen

from the last flowers available anywhere on Earth.

That means this is our last chance.

We're the only ones who make honey, pollinate flowers and dress like this.

If we're gonna survive as a species, this is our moment! What do you say?

Are we going to be bees, orjust Museum of Natural History keychains?

We're bees!

Keychain!

Then follow me! Except Keychain.

Hold on, Barry. Here.

You've earned this.

Yeah!

I'm a Pollen Jock! And it's a perfect fit. All I gotta do are the sleeves.

Oh, yeah.

That's our Barry.

Mom! The bees are back!

If anybody needs to make a call, now's the time.

I got a feeling we'll be working late tonight!

Here's your change. Have a great afternoon! Oan I help who's next?

Would you like some honey with that? It is bee-approved. Don't forget these.

Milk, cream, cheese, it's all me. And I don't see a nickel!

Sometimes I just feel like a piece of meat!

I had no idea.

Barry, I'm sorry. Have you got a moment?

Would you excuse me? My mosquito associate will help you.

Sorry I'm late.

He's a lawyer too?

I was already a blood-sucking parasite. All I needed was a briefcase.

Have a great afternoon!

Barry, I just got this huge tulip order, and I can't get them anywhere.

No problem, Vannie. Just leave it to me.

You're a lifesaver, Barry. Oan I help who's next?

All right, scramble, jocks! It's time to fly.

Thank you, Barry!

That bee is living my life!

Let it go, Kenny.

• When will this nightmare end?!
• Let it all go.

• Beautiful day to fly.
• Sure is.

Between you and me, I was dying to get out of that office.

You have got to start thinking bee, my friend.

• Thinking bee!
• Me?

Hold it. Let's just stop for a second. Hold it.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry, everyone. Oan we stop here?

I'm not making a major life decision during a production number!

All right. Take ten, everybody. Wrap it up, guys.

I had virtually no rehearsal for that.

This strikes me as plainly false, historically speaking. Why not say instead that ballroom was created by black and brown gay and trans folks, and that this fact should never be forgotten, especially when translated into different contexts where white privilege is sure to raise its entitled head? Why claim that dance contests and fashion shows aren't also at the heart of it? Claiming that dark-skinned people are the ones who belong first and foremost in ballroom, and that others need to 'create space for these people first' might simply reverse the racial hierarchies, rather than fostering real inclusion and genuine antiracist struggle.

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We saw inklings of this in Prometheus in Prometheus Bound. Like Prometheus, Theseus values friendship very highly. Even though Heracles has done something tragic, Theseus is still offering council. What do you think Zeus would do?

Prometheus is stating that this crusade he is on is worth all of the suffering he endures. He would rather suffer for eternity than let tyrant Zeus take over the world without opposition

I did not include this sentence in my first draft. However, throughout the semester, especially after writing my meditation on place and intellectual history essays, I learned the importance of describing a scene using specific concrete examples. By adding in how everyone else also had their heads down looking at their phones, the reader can easily paint an image in their head of what the beginning of class looked like.

This simile portrays Angelou's success with her previous poetry collections as she recognizes herself as an accomplished female black writer. Oil wells are a symbol of prosperity; the richest countries in the world were selling oil. Thus when reading this line, the reader should picture a wealthy girl with their head held high.

Another set of rhetorical questions, Angelou is painting a picture of defeat. Being direct and pertinent, she is accusing the oppressor for their actions. She is aware that her success is received with bitterness by the racist society. A few interpretations can be drawn from this stanza. This may literally be a picture of a slave who was abused and she is referring to a broken person. But it can also be taken as a person with a broken spirit as this poem is an autobiography. When Angelou was a young child, she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend and informed of his death after he was murdered soon after; the traumatic series of events led her to be almost completely mute for several years. This interpretation can be of her broken heart and broken spirit from those traumatic childhood experiences. Finally, a general interpretation applies this brokenness and defeat from challenge as an experience that everyone can undergo throughout their life - making it relatable and applicable to the general public, or someone who is experiencing similar despair.

Sennert’s opinion of, and is his language for describing the ovaries is distinctly negative. Not even bothering to describe the ovaries or how they work, or even to address specific afflictions they can have, he paints them broadly as sickly and unreliable and makes them seem gruesome.

Even still today we as humans still have trouble with instruction, but what is so hard for me to wrap my head around his how the rewarded her when she spoke properly. Why is it that we have to reward her when she speaks correctly? Should they have nursed her along and showed her the right way? or would it have been better to earn her trust first then intrust her?

fantastic ending lines both in structure and thematic content.

Can we also use these approaches/equation to predict flow from gravity drainholes ? Well it seems that a gravity drainhole has similarity with a tunnel but the size is much smaller. In some cases miners need to predict flow from gravity drainholes

Elements of Gothic fiction are evident in the graphic, bloody description of the crime scene and dead bodies.

Elements of Gothic fiction are evident in the graphic, bloody description of the violence done to Madame L’Espanaye and her daughter.

Blind Agents

This section reviews Making-it-Explicit (Brandom, 1998), which was a serious attempt to explain how we explain. Brandom tried to reconcile the tension between mechanical implicit with the philosophical implicit.

He argued that, though we can't find intentionality in the physical and biological laws of nature, we can find it in the conversations people make in a society. Intentionality is a myth that becomes real when enough people vocalize that myth when they talk to each other.

Kinda like money, really. Pieces of paper or lumps of gold become exchangeable for goods when enough people take them as exchangeable for goods.

To make his argument, Brandom reviewed the history of explaining how we explain.

Kant

Kant argued that there are rules that are necessary for anyone to explain anything. For example, when we explain to someone about why the sky is blue, we assume that they are "rational", is going to "take us seriously", will interpret the words we say the same way we interpret them, etc. All these necessary rules are moral rules, which makes them immune to scientific understanding. Kant calls these moral rules "practical reason" to distinguish them from scientific understanding of the world ("pure reason").

In this way, Kant separated a few objects (God, immortal soul, free will) from scientific understanding, and that allowed him to simply assert that they must be true because we need those concepts to do things.

Bakker would criticize this as Kant trying to do behavioral psychology by purely thinking inside his own little head. Kant's approach is doomed because introspection is an unreliable hack meant to work only for talking with people in daily life, and we can't even understand what actually goes on inside our own heads without science.

Kant: "We need God, immortality of the soul, and free will in order to do things."

Bakker: "Well, time to check that claim with behavioral psychology. I bet Kant's wrong!"

Frege

Frege argued that normative explanations are incompatible with causal explanations. If I explain why I helped you using behavioral neuroscience, I would have made a "modal mistake", since the right explanation must be normative rather than descriptive.

Explication is an intrinsically normative activity. Making causal constraints explicit at most describes what systems will do, never prescribes what they should do.

Since how we explain is constrained by normative things (as Kant argued), and normative things cannot be explained with descriptive statements (as Frege argued), any explanation for how we explain must be made of normative things.

Wittgenstein

Wittgenstein argued that the implicit assumption behind every explanation is in the other people who hear the explanation. You can't be understood unless other people follow some shared rules. Telling others to follow a rule of understanding like "law of noncontradiction" only works if the other people agrees to that rule and agrees with you about how to use that rule.

"Don't contradict with that statement you made before."

"Why not? And did I really make a contradiction?"

while rules can codify the pragmatic normative significance of claims, they do so only against a background of practices permitting the distinguishing of correct from incorrect applications of those rules

Thus, an explanation of how people explaining must explain why people follow rules. This explanation "why you should follow rules" is itself a normative rule and requires normative explanation.

"You can't say that! It's against rule X."

"What's the problem?"

"It's against the rule-rule to go against rule X!"

"What's the problem?"

"It's against the rule-rule-rule to go against rule-rule!"

Overview

Kant proposes that we are blind to the "things in themselves", such as God, immortal souls, and free will. This blindness allows us to imagine those things as much as we like since science can't say we're wrong about them.

Wittgenstein proposes that we, as a society of people talking to each other, are blind to the rules that support conversations with other people.

With those philosophers, Bakker agrees that our severe blindness is what gives rise to the properties of consciousness, but insists that consciousness can be fully described by science, explaining away all normative statements in the process.

Metadata placement.

Perhaps as part of this exercise, students could not only analyze why the photo doesn't fit the narrative, but instead draw (or use an image search) to find an image that does not reinforce negative stereotypes.

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Current practice in UK on UDL- updated references and useful publication linked to HEA accreditation

procedure for the writing and reading head to move over the paper segments. This book seeks to map the three basic logical components of every computer onto the card catalog as a “ paper machine,” analyzing its data processing and interfaces that may justify the claim, “Card catalogs can do anything!”

Purpose of the book.

A card catalog of index cards used by a human meets all the basic criteria of a Turing machine, or abstract computer, as defined by Alan Turing.

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Bottom is in charge. He is ordering around the faires because Titania allowed it. He was controlling her feelings and thats why he is allowed to order around the faires.

I still can't wrap my head around how crazy hockey fans get and that it can escalate to something so violent

This would never happen today

Bill Lycan claimed that, even if introspection is a possible kind of perception, it is still pretty weird. If I introspect "I see apple", the only perception is .

Roughly, the reason is that, while external objects, like apples, has perceptible properties like color, reflectivity, taste... the inner objects, like "the awareness of "apple"", cannot have any property.

To introspect, then, is like looking at the sky, and suddenly God directly sends a thought "I see God" into your head by an invisible beam.

In my opinion, dogs are amazing animals. They love you unconditionally. My dog has to be by my side all the time. She is definitely my protector. These lines really remind me of my dog and how great she is.

I'm not sure if I would risk going over the frozen river when spring was coming. It just sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.

The harshness of reality can be cast aside by the love of a relationship in the eyes of Maria.

Diagram of the house they live in as well as putting a vivid picture in the readers head.

The vivid imagery of the location where the story is being held puts a picture in your head.

Maria had change in some physical ways do to her new surroundings but not what was in her personality.

Shows how dangerous the travel was when spring was coming. It was only safe to travel in winter when the water was frozen making travel easier.

Because religion was part of the culture, when he was there it uplifted him.

I didn't really get to see this scene but I can imagine it to be very dark and sounding like Burns is getting inside the head of Bart. Then it leads to Burns pleading that Bart kills him and he will still be around forever even if he falls into the river.

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Purpose P140 How do certain defining phrases determine who you are? How do your values define you? What does your sense of purpose say about who you are?

passion, identity, values, and reasons Sleep has never been easy for me. My purpose and reasons were super-clear, so I was plenty motivated. The longer you go without sleep, the harder it becomes to maintain a sense of reality—or motivation.

Often our greatest struggles lead to our greatest strengths.

My two biggest challenges as a child were learning and public speaking.

Sleep given me two very important lessons: 1) rarely have to prepare for a speech, I live them 2) I’ve had to become really clear on my purpose Second, I’ve had to become really clear on my purpose, my identity, my values, and my reasons for doing what I do every day. When you don’t sleep, and you have a very limited amount of energy and focus, you don’t waste it. You prioritize and get crystal clear about your commitments and why you are making them. All of those choices have led to inexhaustible motivation. That’s what we’ll talk about in this chapter. START WITH WHY p42 (Start with Why by Simon Sinek) 1) he often stresses the importance of being able to convey to others why you do what you do. (“People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it, so it follows that if you don’t know why you do what you do, how will anyone else?”) 2) We hear the words purpose and goals business the same or different

• A goal is the point one wishes to achieve
• A purpose is the reason one aims at to achieve a goal But how do you do this? One of the popular ways is setting SMART goals. S is for Specific M is for Measurable A is for Actionable R is for Realistic T is for Time-based The challenge for many people is that this process To get your goals out of your head and into your hands, make sure they fit with your emotions—with your HEART H is for Healthy E is for Enduring A is for Alluring R is for Relevant T is for Truth

ON PURPOSE AND PASSION People who know their purpose in life know who they are, what they are, and why they are. My experience, however, passion and purpose are not the same thing; instead, one leads to the other.

who DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? They say the two most powerful words in the English language are the shortest: “I am.” Whatever you put after those two words determines your destiny. When you consciously decide to identify with the habit or goal you want to create or achieve. you will experience enormous power.

A HIERARCHY OF VALUES : Values goal

FINDING YOUR REASONS When it comes to doing anything in life, reasons reap rewards feeling good is not required to feel motivate You could feel amazing and still get nothing done if your reasons for doing so are not strong enough.

WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE? What is motivation? set of emotions (painful and pleasurable), the fuel for our actions

Where does it come from? Motivation comes from purpose

TYING IT ALL TOGETHER

passion, identity, values, and reasons

BEFORE WE MOVE ON Write down a list of your most common “I am” statements Create a list of the things you value the most “why” before you do anything

You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you're stronger, you think more quickly. Michelle Obama

Lars Bak makes this point in a Channel 9 interview. I think it was this one (can't tell; dead link): http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Expert-to-Expert-Erik-Meijer-and-Lars-Bak-Inside-V8-A-Javascript-Virtual-Machine

One of his interlocutors can't wrap his head around it. He makes a "but C# and Java are compiled languages"-type of argument comes off like Limmy's confused protest that "steel is heavier than feathers...".

I found this very interesting as a practice of mourning. In a way, it resembles what one might go through internally at the loss of a loved one. Many barely eat and lie in bed for days. This custom shows a great deal of respect for the loss of a loved spouse.

These are very different takes on what happens after death and very different from common customs and beliefs.

Again, we see more of a picture being painted that this is awful land ridden with failed crops and intense drought. Giving it a hell on earth sense and a cringeworthy image in the readers head.