{"108571":{"#nid":"108571","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Karlovitz Lecture with Dr. Bernd Heinrich","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Honors Program and the College of Sciences welcome Dr. Heinrich on \u0022From the Bees to the Birds: Research Adventures.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\n\nStarting grad school, Bernd Heinrich (U. Vermont Professor Emeritus in Biology) had no\nidea where he was headed, but after some detours he ended up leaning toward his childhood\nfascination with insects and birds. Starting with sphinx moths, which act like hummingbird\nanalogues, he made a discovery in physiology that turned into a particular engineering problem.\nTo see how other insects solved it he found out that bees relied also on behavior, which led him\nto social bees (he was and still is a beekeeper). Ravens\u0027 behavior at food bonanzas showed\nsomething that looked similar in behavior to bees, but from their natural history, Heinrich knew\nthey had a different problem to solve than social bees.\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat was going on was a huge enigma. I want to talk about how I tried to solve a\nbiological mystery through experiments with wild birds in the field and tame ones in large\naviaries. The main enigma, which was the start of many more that turned up later, was why they\ndid not keep rich food bonanzas a secret. How was it possible that such behavior might be\nselected for, when, logically, it would appear that sharing should be selected against?\u201d\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Heinrich is the author of over a dozen books, the most recent being \u201cThe Nesting\nSeason: Cuckoos, Cuckolds, and the Invention of Monogamy.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Honors Program and the College of Sciences welcome Dr. Heinrich on\n\n\u0022From the Bees to the Birds: Research\nAdventures.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022From the Bees to the Birds: Research Adventures\u0022"}],"uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2012-02-10 15:14:24","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:58:00","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-03-07T16:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-03-07T17:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-03-07T17:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-03-07 21:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-03-07 22:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-03-07 22:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.honorsprogram.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Honors Program"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cos.gatech.edu\/","title":"College of Sciences"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/files\/wysiwyg\/file\/Heinrich_Flier_Blue.pdf","title":"Event Flyer"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1282","name":"School of Economics"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"},{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"},{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"},{"id":"1316","name":"Green Buzz"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"277","name":"Biology"},{"id":"479","name":"Green Buzz"},{"id":"4201","name":"honors program"},{"id":"167629","name":"sciences"},{"id":"167630","name":"Social Insects"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}