Talk about government double-talk: When an EPA official says, "There are [zero] non-trivial costs to society if we get this wrong," he means that if they don't get the science right, then we are headed for a huge disaster.

I never paid much attention to bees until one summer day at Longleat House in the south of England when I was drinking a bottle of fruit juice, and a few drops had collected on the top. A honey bee landed on it, shared my drink, wanted more, and I put a drop on my finger and the bee devoured that as well, then flew off to tell its fellow bees it had discovered the fountain of wonderful nectar. By then, I had moved on.

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