Marcus Hutchins :verified: on Nostr: Some of these science videos I see on TikTok are so absurd I'm convinced I'm being ...
Some of these science videos I see on TikTok are so absurd I'm convinced I'm being trolled.
There was one where they were putting a bunch of bees into tiny chairs in a miniature classroom. Then they placed explosives in front of the class and only fed the bees which attempted to investigate the explosives. As a result the bees became conditioned to instinctively stick out their tongues expecting food whenever they detected the scent of explosives. So they built a handheld explosive scanner where the cartridges are literally just rows of bees in tiny chairs and a computer vision algorithm which monitors how many bees stick out their tongues at any one time.
I though this has to be an elaborate prank, but according to Google, this is actually a real device that someone made.
There was one where they were putting a bunch of bees into tiny chairs in a miniature classroom. Then they placed explosives in front of the class and only fed the bees which attempted to investigate the explosives. As a result the bees became conditioned to instinctively stick out their tongues expecting food whenever they detected the scent of explosives. So they built a handheld explosive scanner where the cartridges are literally just rows of bees in tiny chairs and a computer vision algorithm which monitors how many bees stick out their tongues at any one time.
I though this has to be an elaborate prank, but according to Google, this is actually a real device that someone made.