SMALL WINGS, OLD BONES Northern Latitudes — Episode Show Notes

There's a thread connecting this episode that isn't obvious at first. One conversation is about something very much alive — small, social, and in trouble. The other is about something long gone, found frozen in rock on a high Arctic island. But both stories ask the same kind of question: what does an animal's fate tell us about the world it inhabited, and the one we're building now?

Part One: The Science of Bees with Noria Morfin, Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology, University of Manitoba

The University of Manitoba's Honey Bee Lab has been running for over a hundred years — longer than most people have been thinking about colony collapse. Noria Morfin arrived there a year ago, and she came in the way a lo ...