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> What did Steve say?
Something about science, symposia, debate, and uncertainty... Drinking came into it as I recall.
> The measurements of cell size and angle reported here do not agree with those in the literature, which also are in disagreement, largely because of the irregularity of the cells.
I thought that worker cell size was settled once and for all by my good friend Dee Lusby long ago after careful reinterpretation of the literature and determined to be, for all right thinking bees and beekeepers, 4.9 mm +/- 0.000mm
Actually the universal constants I meant are things like Planck's constant.
See https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/introduction.html
> By the way, it's Taber.
Glad you pointed that out. Otherwise people might have thought I meant Steve *Tabor* the guy down the street who fixes cars on his front lawn and keeps bees in inverted five-gallon pails and trash cans. (Great idea, by the way).
> His early work makes for some interesting reading.
Yes. He was an early advocate for breeding to reduce AFB susceptibility, an Idea that Marla, Jerry, and others picked up and carried forward. to everyone's continuing benefit. Also the scuttlebutt is that Steve brought some of Kerr's bees to the US from Brazil back in the seventies.
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