Tania Munz: 2 books
The Dancing Bees
Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
We think of bees as being among the busiest workers in the garden, admiring them for their productivity. But amid their buzzing, they are also great communicators—and unusual dancers. As Karl von Frisch (1886–1982) discovered during World War II, bees communicate the location of food sources to...
Vivarium
Experimental, Quantitative, and Theoretical Biology at Vienna's Biologische Versuchsanstalt
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
The scientific achievements and forgotten legacy of a major Austrian research institute, from its founding in 1902 to its wartime destruction in 1945.
The Biologische Versuchsanstalt was founded in Vienna in 1902 with the explicit goal to foster the quantification, mathematization, and theory...