The New York Times just introduced a fun online tool that lets you look at
discussions of topics over time in their paper:
http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=bee

Aside from a peak in the 1970s, coverage of bees have been pretty steadily
declining; honey, however, has been increasing.
http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=bee.bees&format=percent.honey

It wasn't that high to begin with though, really.

Thought you all might enjoy playing with this :)

Gwen

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