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"This time of year, I have to visit the hives every two or three weeks. I have the help of Antoine, who is a taxi cab driver, who stops every day that I'm in the market to talk about bees and he takes me around to my locations. I teach him everything I know about bees, and so he doesn't charge me."

"Even human beings, Hugenholtz said, are subconsciously eavesdropping on chemical conversations between the inhabitants of our guts; this leads us to crave, say, potato chips when our microbes want salt. His eyes fell warily on his coffee. 'Do you think our stomach bacteria have trained us?'"