links for 2010-11-29

Bees in Brooklyn are making reddish honey. Their honeycombs are bright red. Some beekeepers solved the mystery.

On July 24, 1915, the SS Eastland steamer took on board 2,752 passengers while docked on the Chicago River. When passengers rushed to the side of the ship to watch a passing canoe race, the enormous, top-heavy vessel quite suddenly rolled over. 848 people died in what remains the largest loss of life in a Great Lakes shipwreck. The cold storage warehouse to which the bodies were taken is now the sound stage for the Oprah Winfrey Show.