People dressed as bees protest in London against the use of pesticides. Photo: Dan Kitwood/ Getty Images If you have a bee in your bonnet about something, you are obsessed with it and can't stop ...

We’re all familiar with the feeling of having an idea or subject stuck in your head that makes it difficult to think about anything else. But why (and when) did we start comparing that experience to a ...

The 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee is a Super Bowl of American academia, a place where 12-year-olds who can spell ophthalmoplegia are TV stars and spelling judges are hounded for autographs. -- ...

Modern environmentalism rose to ascendancy on opposition to pesticides, specifically DDT. “If the environmentalists win on DDT,” Environmental Defense Fund scientist Charles Wurster told the Seattle ...

It was a typical Sunday afternoon — except I was naked and my wife was screaming. To be clear one had nothing to do with the other. I had just come out of the shower when I heard her howling ...

Lions Gate Films has teamed with Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner’s 2929 Entertainment to co-finance and distribute “Akeelah and the Bee.” Pic, to star Laurence Fishburne and Keke Palmer, concerns an ...

"To bee or not to bee," was the question my beekeeper friend John posed when he asked if I'd like to help him split some of his existing hives to start new ones. I happily agreed. I'm curious by ...

There's no bee in my bonnet! Though I've slammed bunny decor on this blog, when I was a kid, I lived for Easter--and not just because of the basket overflowing with Cadbury mini eggs and stomachache ...