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 Thanks for all your input today on picking the most popular Bong💨 Pink is the winner at 54 and other 35. I have it in an event page so everyone can be in one group. More info to follow 🙂 Event starts on Tuesday and runs till Saturday

Good mornings

Todays Soup is : Loaded Potato & Bacon
We also have some chipotle tomato available.

Lunch Feature is Blueberry Brie & Bacon Panini
With fresh local blueberry’s, creamy Brie cheese, crisp bacon, arugula and a garlic aioli on multigrain bread. Once these multi’s go we will switch to sourdough bread.

Dessert Fridge is stacked, Pistachio Baklava Cheesecake is back this week. Get it while the getting is good.

We’re here til 8 pm for Dine in & Takeout.
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🥰😍☕️ bumblebees are so fabulous lol

The bees could walk straight to the food. Instead, some of them kept
leaving the path to roll tiny wooden balls. No sugar waited inside. No
researcher had trained them to do it.

Years earlier, scientists at Queen Mary University of London had
taught bumblebees to roll a ball to a target in exchange for food.
Between those experiments, they noticed something they had not
planned: even when no reward was available, bees sometimes climbed
onto the balls and rolled them anyway.

So the team built a new experiment around that strange choice.
Forty-five individually tagged bumblebees could move through an
unobstructed central path to reach all the sugar solution and pollen
they needed. On either side were areas containing wooden balls—some
fixed in place, others free to move. The bees did not have to enter
either area. Yet individual bees rolled the movable balls from one to
117 times. Younger bees rolled more often than older bees. Males
tended to roll individual balls longer than females.

The researchers tested other explanations. The rolling did not help
the bees obtain food, clear the path or find mates. It occurred in
low-stress conditions, was voluntary, repeated but varied, and used
movements different from practical tasks. In a second experiment,
forty-two bees learned that one colored chamber contained movable
balls while another did not. Later, with all the balls removed, the
bees preferred the color previously associated with rolling
them—evidence that the activity itself had been rewarding.

Scientists cannot ask a bee what joy feels like. They did not claim to
have proven a humanlike inner experience. Their narrower conclusion
was still extraordinary: the behavior met established scientific
criteria for animal play and supports the possibility of positive
emotional states in insects.

We have built an entire metaphor around the “worker bee”—a life
imagined only through labor, efficiency and service to the hive.
Perhaps that says as much about us as it does about bees. We often
notice other beings only when they pollinate our food, produce
something useful or perform a task we can measure.

But these bees stepped away from the direct route to the reward. They
touched the balls, held on with all six legs, rolled, detached and
sometimes came back again. For a few seconds, usefulness was not the
point.

Even in a hive organized around work, a tiny life may still make room for play.

The best value in air cleaning is not sold as an air cleaner.

The design is called a Corsi-Rosenthal box, after Richard Corsi, an air quality engineer, and Jim Rosenthal, a filter manufacturer who worked out the details with him in August 2020, back when nobody could find a HEPA purifier in stock anywhere. Four MERV 13 furnace filters form the walls of a cube, a 20-inch box fan sits on top pulling air out through the middle, and a cardboard shroud closes the gaps around the blades. Total cost lands somewhere between $60 and $90 depending on what your hardware store charges for filters.

The reason it outruns machines costing far more is surface area. A tabletop purifier forces every cubic foot of air through one small pleated cartridge, so resistance stays high and the little fan spends its energy fighting it. The cube gives you four full 20 by 20 inch filters working in parallel, resistance per square foot collapses, and a weak box fan can suddenly push 350 to 600 cubic feet per minute through media it could never handle on its own. That is the whole trick, and it is why the same fan strapped to a single filter performs badly. Researchers measuring clean air delivery rates in 2022 matched the cube against purifiers costing five to ten times more.

It also lasts far longer than people expect. Schools and offices that ran them continuously through 2021 and 2022 swapped filters every six to twelve months rather than monthly, because the load spreads across four panels instead of one. Teams at Brown University and UC Davis tested the boxes in occupied classrooms and measured real reductions in airborne particles, not just lab numbers. Entire school districts ended up building them by the hundreds.

Build one for whichever room gets the worst smoke, dust or cooking haze, and put it where furniture will not block the intake. The arrows printed on each filter point inward, toward the fan, every single time. Add a cardboard collar across the top so air cannot short circuit around the outside of the blades, which is the most common mistake people make. Run it on medium and it is quiet enough to sleep through. [UVS7N]

🎬 Drive-In Movie nights are back this fall!

Mark your calendars for four Friday nights under the stars at the Bath Fairgrounds. Bring your family, pack your favourite movie snacks, and enjoy a classic drive-in experience starting at dusk.

📅 Fridays: September 18, 25, October 2 & 9
📍 Bath Fairgrounds (200 Main St, Bath)
💛 By donation

Stay tuned—movie announcements are coming soon!