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About Bees, Culture & CuriosityPhilosophy of Bee Happiness Season 4 Episode 1: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – Philosophy of Bee Happiness With Daniel Miksha, we try to unravel the philosophy of happiness. We barely touch on our intended theme (Can bees be happy?), but we lay some of the essential groundwork. This episode was recorded in April, 2025. Please subscribe, like, love, and follow. We live or die by your adulation. Podcast website: https://sites.libsyn.com/540327/site About Ron Miksha: https://about-bees.org/about-ron/ Finally: email your questions, comments, and angst: ron@aboutbees.net 2025-04-1655 minAbout Bees, Culture & CuriosityWhat would Plato do with Drones?Season 2 Episode 6: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – What would Plato do with Drones? Ah, yes. Our philosopher-contributor is back. Daniel Miksha shows us how Plato abuses bees by making them into an allegory for the ruthless (but ultimately justified) murder of unproductive members of society. After a brief detour into the early history of Greece and the nation of Georgia, we focus on Plato's Republic and the ancient Greek philosopher's five forms of government, of which (in Plato's mind), democracy is one of the worst. Why? Because of the drones, of course. Aristotle says wor...2024-12-031h 04About Bees, Culture & CuriosityDo Bees Feel Pain?Season 1 Episode 3: About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast - Do Bees Feel Pain? We often expect to be on the receiving end of pain - whether from a broken elbow or from the tail-end of a bee. But what about bees? Do small creatures feel pain? Is it just a matter of defining pain in a way that we can claim bees feel no pain - or that they do, indeed feel pain? Or is the sensation of feeling pain so complicated that it defies a definition? Do bees simply react without actually 'feeling' anything? Or are they...2024-07-311h 15