Honeybees Help Fight Cancer

Scientists from the University of Chicago Medical Center have found that a compound from honeybee hives arrests the growth of prostate tumors in mice. And the techniques the researchers used are likely to give a lot more information on how and why many natural remedies do — or do not — work. Read more here. 

Here’s a clever and judicious use of the open space that is required around a busy airport like Chicago’s O’Hare: An apiary.

There are now 1.5 million bees living in beehives in this open space. The beehives are tended mainly by carefully screened former convicts. The felons work for Sweet Beginnings, an enterprise that employs them as beekeepers, landscapers and food processors.