Mark L. Winston

Mark L. Winston is a Canadian biologist and writer.[1] A professor of apiculture and social insects at Simon Fraser University, he spent much of his career studying bees[1] until becoming founding director of the university's Centre for Dialogue in 2006.[2]

Mark L. Winston
Mark L. Winston, October 2015
Occupationacademic, writer
Genrescience
Notable worksBee Time: Lessons from the Hive
Website
winstonhive.com

His 2014 book Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction[3] and was shortlisted for the Science in Society General Book Award.[4]

Works
  • The Biology of the Honey Bee (Harvard University Press, 1984)
  • Killer Bees: The Africanized Honey Bee in the Americas (Harvard University Press, 1992)
  • Nature Wars: People vs. Pests (Harvard University Press ,1997)
  • Travels in the Genetically Modified Zone (Harvard University Press, 2002)
  • Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive (Harvard University Press, 2014)
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gollark: Solution: don't vote, but then whenever anyone brings up the subject, just change the subject and distract them.
gollark: > Why is the IQ of everyone using Twitter, Facebook, etc all like 40? It’s amazing just how dumb people on social media areThey have incentives to show you stuff which will make you very outraged, to boost engagement.
gollark: I have, mercifully, been able to avoid it so far.
gollark: Probably not the same people, but likely the same *kind*.

References
  1. "B.C.’s unassuming scientists have changed the world". The Province, June 28, 2015.
  2. "Mark L Winston". Centre for Dialog, March 19, 2017.
  3. "Robyn Sarah, Guy Vanderhaeghe among recipients of 2015 Governor General's Literary Awards". Montreal Gazette, October 28, 2015.
  4. "Bob McDonald finalist for Science in Society General Book Award". CBC Books, April 14, 2015.


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