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Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book . The Garden of Live Flowers here CHAPTER II. The Garden of Live Flowers “I should see the garden far better,” said Alice to herself, “if I could get to the top of that hill: and here’s a path that leads straight to it—at least, no, it doesn’t do that—” (after going a few yards along the path, and turning several sharp corners), “but I suppose it will at last. But how curiously it twists! It’s more like a corkscrew than a path! Well, turn goes to the hill, I suppose—no, it doesn’t! This goes straight back to the house! Well then, I’ll try it the other way.” this And so she did: wandering up and down, and trying turn after turn, but always coming back to the house, do what she would. Indeed, once, when she turned a corner rather more quickly than usual, she ran against it before she could stop herself. “It’s no use talking about it,” Alice said, looking up at the house and pretending it was arguing with her. “I’m going in again yet. I know I should have to get through the Looking-glass again—back into the old room—and there’d be an end of all my adventures!” not So, resolutely turning her back upon the house, she set out once more down the path, determined to keep straight on till she got to the hill. For a few minutes all went on well, and she was just saying, “I really do it this time—” when the path gave a sudden twist and shook itself (as she described it afterwards), and the next moment she found herself actually walking in at the door. shall “Oh, it’s too bad!” she cried. “I never saw such a house for getting in the way! Never!” However, there was the hill full in sight, so there was nothing to be done but start again. This time she came upon a large flower-bed, with a border of daisies, and a willow-tree growing in the middle. “O Tiger-lily,” said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, “I you could talk!” wish “We talk,” said the Tiger-lily: “when there’s anybody worth talking to.” can Alice was so astonished that she could not speak for a minute: it quite seemed to take her breath away. At length, as the Tiger-lily only went on waving about, she spoke again, in a timid voice—almost in a whisper. “And can the flowers talk?” all “As well as can,” said the Tiger-lily. “And a great deal louder.” you “It isn’t manners for us to begin, you know,” said the Rose, “and I really was wondering when you’d speak! Said I to myself, ‘Her face has got sense in it, though it’s not a clever one!’ Still, you’re the right colour, and that goes a long way.” some “I don’t care about the colour,” the Tiger-lily remarked. “If only her petals curled up a little more, she’d be all right.” Alice didn’t like being criticised, so she began asking questions. “Aren’t you sometimes frightened at being planted out here, with nobody to take care of you?” “There’s the tree in the middle,” said the Rose: “what else is it good for?” “But what could it do, if any danger came?” Alice asked. “It says ‘Bough-wough!’” cried a Daisy: “that’s why its branches are called boughs!” “Didn’t you know ?” cried another Daisy, and here they all began shouting together, till the air seemed quite full of little shrill voices. “Silence, every one of you!” cried the Tiger-lily, waving itself passionately from side to side, and trembling with excitement. “They know I can’t get at them!” it panted, bending its quivering head towards Alice, “or they wouldn’t dare to do it!” that “Never mind!” Alice said in a soothing tone, and stooping down to the daisies, who were just beginning again, she whispered, “If you don’t hold your tongues, I’ll pick you!” There was silence in a moment, and several of the pink daisies turned white. “That’s right!” said the Tiger-lily. “The daisies are worst of all. When one speaks, they all begin together, and it’s enough to make one wither to hear the way they go on!” “How is it you can all talk so nicely?” Alice said, hoping to get it into a better temper by a compliment. “I’ve been in many gardens before, but none of the flowers could talk.” “Put your hand down, and feel the ground,” said the Tiger-lily. “Then you’ll know why.” Alice did so. “It’s very hard,” she said, “but I don’t see what that has to do with it.” “In most gardens,” the Tiger-lily said, “they make the beds too soft—so that the flowers are always asleep.” This sounded a very good reason, and Alice was quite pleased to know it. “I never thought of that before!” she said. “It’s opinion that you never think ,” the Rose said in a rather severe tone. my at all “I never saw anybody that looked stupider,” a Violet said, so suddenly, that Alice quite jumped; for it hadn’t spoken before. “Hold tongue!” cried the Tiger-lily. “As if ever saw anybody! You keep your head under the leaves, and snore away there, till you know no more what’s going on in the world, than if you were a bud!” your you “Are there any more people in the garden besides me?” Alice said, not choosing to notice the Rose’s last remark. “There’s one other flower in the garden that can move about like you,” said the Rose. “I wonder how you do it—” (“You’re always wondering,” said the Tiger-lily), “but she’s more bushy than you are.” “Is she like me?” Alice asked eagerly, for the thought crossed her mind, “There’s another little girl in the garden, somewhere!” “Well, she has the same awkward shape as you,” the Rose said, “but she’s redder—and her petals are shorter, I think.” “Her petals are done up close, almost like a dahlia,” the Tiger-lily interrupted: “not tumbled about anyhow, like yours.” “But that’s not fault,” the Rose added kindly: “you’re beginning to fade, you know—and then one can’t help one’s petals getting a little untidy.” your Alice didn’t like this idea at all: so, to change the subject, she asked “Does she ever come out here?” “I daresay you’ll see her soon,” said the Rose. “She’s one of the thorny kind.” “Where does she wear the thorns?” Alice asked with some curiosity. “Why all round her head, of course,” the Rose replied. “I was wondering hadn’t got some too. I thought it was the regular rule.” you “She’s coming!” cried the Larkspur. “I hear her footstep, thump, thump, thump, along the gravel-walk!” Alice looked round eagerly, and found that it was the Red Queen. “She’s grown a good deal!” was her first remark. She had indeed: when Alice first found her in the ashes, she had been only three inches high—and here she was, half a head taller than Alice herself! “It’s the fresh air that does it,” said the Rose: “wonderfully fine air it is, out here.” “I think I’ll go and meet her,” said Alice, for, though the flowers were interesting enough, she felt that it would be far grander to have a talk with a real Queen. “You can’t possibly do that,” said the Rose: “ should advise you to walk the other way.” I This sounded nonsense to Alice, so she said nothing, but set off at once towards the Red Queen. To her surprise, she lost sight of her in a moment, and found herself walking in at the front-door again. A little provoked, she drew back, and after looking everywhere for the queen (whom she spied out at last, a long way off), she thought she would try the plan, this time, of walking in the opposite direction. It succeeded beautifully. She had not been walking a minute before she found herself face to face with the Red Queen, and full in sight of the hill she had been so long aiming at. “Where do you come from?” said the Red Queen. “And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don’t twiddle your fingers all the time.” Alice attended to all these directions, and explained, as well as she could, that she had lost her way. “I don’t know what you mean by way,” said the Queen: “all the ways about here belong to —but why did you come out here at all?” she added in a kinder tone. “Curtsey while you’re thinking what to say, it saves time.” your me Alice wondered a little at this, but she was too much in awe of the Queen to disbelieve it. “I’ll try it when I go home,” she thought to herself, “the next time I’m a little late for dinner.” “It’s time for you to answer now,” the Queen said, looking at her watch: “open your mouth a wider when you speak, and always say ‘your Majesty.’” little “I only wanted to see what the garden was like, your Majesty—” “That’s right,” said the Queen, patting her on the head, which Alice didn’t like at all, “though, when you say ‘garden,’— seen gardens, compared with which this would be a wilderness.” I’ve Alice didn’t dare to argue the point, but went on: “—and I thought I’d try and find my way to the top of that hill—” “When you say ‘hill,’” the Queen interrupted, “ could show you hills, in comparison with which you’d call that a valley.” I “No, I shouldn’t,” said Alice, surprised into contradicting her at last: “a hill be a valley, you know. That would be nonsense—” can’t The Red Queen shook her head, “You may call it ‘nonsense’ if you like,” she said, “but heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!” I’ve Alice curtseyed again, as she was afraid from the Queen’s tone that she was a offended: and they walked on in silence till they got to the top of the little hill. little For some minutes Alice stood without speaking, looking out in all directions over the country—and a most curious country it was. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from side to side, and the ground between was divided up into squares by a number of little green hedges, that reached from brook to brook. “I declare it’s marked out just like a large chessboard!” Alice said at last. “There ought to be some men moving about somewhere—and so there are!” She added in a tone of delight, and her heart began to beat quick with excitement as she went on. “It’s a great huge game of chess that’s being played—all over the world—if this the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I I was one of them! I wouldn’t mind being a Pawn, if only I might join—though of course I should to be a Queen, best.” is wish like She glanced rather shyly at the real Queen as she said this, but her companion only smiled pleasantly, and said, “That’s easily managed. You can be the White Queen’s Pawn, if you like, as Lily’s too young to play; and you’re in the Second Square to begin with: when you get to the Eighth Square you’ll be a Queen—” Just at this moment, somehow or other, they began to run. Alice never could quite make out, in thinking it over afterwards, how it was that they began: all she remembers is, that they were running hand in hand, and the Queen went so fast that it was all she could do to keep up with her: and still the Queen kept crying “Faster! Faster!” but Alice felt she go faster, though she had not breath left to say so. could not The most curious part of the thing was, that the trees and the other things round them never changed their places at all: however fast they went, they never seemed to pass anything. “I wonder if all the things move along with us?” thought poor puzzled Alice. And the Queen seemed to guess her thoughts, for she cried, “Faster! Don’t try to talk!” Not that Alice had any idea of doing . She felt as if she would never be able to talk again, she was getting so much out of breath: and still the Queen cried “Faster! Faster!” and dragged her along. “Are we nearly there?” Alice managed to pant out at last. that “Nearly there!” the Queen repeated. “Why, we passed it ten minutes ago! Faster!” And they ran on for a time in silence, with the wind whistling in Alice’s ears, and almost blowing her hair off her head, she fancied. “Now! Now!” cried the Queen. “Faster! Faster!” And they went so fast that at last they seemed to skim through the air, hardly touching the ground with their feet, till suddenly, just as Alice was getting quite exhausted, they stopped, and she found herself sitting on the ground, breathless and giddy. The Queen propped her up against a tree, and said kindly, “You may rest a little now.” Alice looked round her in great surprise. “Why, I do believe we’ve been under this tree the whole time! Everything’s just as it was!” “Of course it is,” said the Queen, “what would you have it?” “Well, in country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else—if you ran very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.” our “A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, , you see, it takes all the running can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!” here you “I’d rather not try, please!” said Alice. “I’m quite content to stay here—only I so hot and thirsty!” am “I know what like!” the Queen said good-naturedly, taking a little box out of her pocket. “Have a biscuit?” you’d Alice thought it would not be civil to say “No,” though it wasn’t at all what she wanted. So she took it, and ate it as well as she could: and it was dry; and she thought she had never been so nearly choked in all her life. very “While you’re refreshing yourself,” said the Queen, “I’ll just take the measurements.” And she took a ribbon out of her pocket, marked in inches, and began measuring the ground, and sticking little pegs in here and there. “At the end of two yards,” she said, putting in a peg to mark the distance, “I shall give you your directions—have another biscuit?” “No, thank you,” said Alice: “one’s enough!” quite “Thirst quenched, I hope?” said the Queen. Alice did not know what to say to this, but luckily the Queen did not wait for an answer, but went on. “At the end of yards I shall repeat them—for fear of your forgetting them. At the end of , I shall say good-bye. And at the end of , I shall go!” three four five She had got all the pegs put in by this time, and Alice looked on with great interest as she returned to the tree, and then began slowly walking down the row. At the two-yard peg she faced round, and said, “A pawn goes two squares in its first move, you know. So you’ll go quickly through the Third Square—by railway, I should think—and you’ll find yourself in the Fourth Square in no time. Well, square belongs to Tweedledum and Tweedledee—the Fifth is mostly water—the Sixth belongs to Humpty Dumpty—But you make no remark?” very that “I—I didn’t know I had to make one—just then,” Alice faltered out. “You have said, ‘It’s extremely kind of you to tell me all this’—however, we’ll suppose it said—the Seventh Square is all forest—however, one of the Knights will show you the way—and in the Eighth Square we shall be Queens together, and it’s all feasting and fun!” Alice got up and curtseyed, and sat down again. should At the next peg the Queen turned again, and this time she said, “Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing—turn out your toes as you walk—and remember who you are!” She did not wait for Alice to curtsey this time, but walked on quickly to the next peg, where she turned for a moment to say “good-bye,” and then hurried on to the last. How it happened, Alice never knew, but exactly as she came to the last peg, she was gone. Whether she vanished into the air, or whether she ran quickly into the wood (“and she run very fast!” thought Alice), there was no way of guessing, but she was gone, and Alice began to remember that she was a Pawn, and that it would soon be time for her to move. can About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain. Lewis Carroll (2008). Through the Looking-Glass. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved October 2022 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18857/18857-h/18857-h.htm This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at , located at . www.gutenberg.org https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html

The Garden of Live Flowers

The Golden Road by L. M. Montgomery, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here . FLOWERS O’ MAY CHAPTER XII. FLOWERS O’ MAY Accordingly we went a-maying, following the lure of dancing winds to a certain westward sloping hill lying under the spirit-like blue of spring skies, feathered over with lisping young pines and firs, which cupped little hollows and corners where the sunshine got in and never got out again, but stayed there and grew mellow, coaxing dear things to bloom long before they would dream of waking up elsewhere. ‘Twas there we found our mayflowers, after faithful seeking. Mayflowers, you must know, never flaunt themselves; they must be sought as becomes them, and then they will yield up their treasures to the seeker—clusters of star-white and dawn-pink that have in them the very soul of all the springs that ever were, re-incarnated in something it seems gross to call perfume, so exquisite and spiritual is it. We wandered gaily over the hill, calling to each other with laughter and jest, getting parted and delightfully lost in that little pathless wilderness, and finding each other unexpectedly in nooks and dips and sunny silences, where the wind purred and gentled and went softly. When the sun began to hang low, sending great fan-like streamers of radiance up to the zenith, we foregathered in a tiny, sequestered valley, full of young green fern, lying in the shadow of a wooded hill. In it was a shallow pool—a glimmering green sheet of water on whose banks nymphs might dance as blithely as ever they did on Argive hill or in Cretan dale. There we sat and stripped the faded leaves and stems from our spoil, making up the blossoms into bouquets to fill our baskets with sweetness. The Story Girl twisted a spray of divinest pink in her brown curls, and told us an old legend of a beautiful Indian maiden who died of a broken heart when the first snows of winter were falling, because she believed her long-absent lover was false. But he came back in the spring time from his long captivity; and when he heard that she was dead he sought her grave to mourn her, and lo, under the dead leaves of the old year he found sweet sprays of a blossom never seen before, and knew that it was a message of love and remembrance from his dark-eyed sweet-heart. “Except in stories Indian girls are called squaws,” remarked practical Dan, tying his mayflowers together in one huge, solid, cabbage-like bunch. Not for Dan the bother of filling his basket with the loose sprays, mingled with feathery elephant’s-ears and trails of creeping spruce, as the rest of us, following the Story Girl’s example, did. Nor would he admit that ours looked any better than his. “I like things of one kind together. I don’t like them mixed,” he said. “You have no taste,” said Felicity. “Except in my mouth, best beloved,” responded Dan. “You do think you are so smart,” retorted Felicity, flushing with anger. “Don’t quarrel this lovely day,” implored Cecily. “Nobody’s quarrelling, Sis. I ain’t a bit mad. It’s Felicity. What on earth is that at the bottom of your basket, Cecily?” “It’s a History of the Reformation in France,” confessed poor Cecily, “by a man named D-a-u-b-i-g-n-y. I can’t pronounce it. I heard Mr. Marwood saying it was a book everyone ought to read, so I began it last Sunday. I brought it along today to read when I got tired picking flowers. I’d ever so much rather have brought Ester Reid. There’s so much in the history I can’t understand, and it is so dreadful to read of people being burned to death. But I felt I OUGHT to read it.” “Do you really think your mind has improved any?” asked Sara Ray seriously, wreathing the handle of her basket with creeping spruce. “No, I’m afraid it hasn’t one bit,” answered Cecily sadly. “I feel that I haven’t succeeded very well in keeping my resolutions.” “I’ve kept mine,” said Felicity complacently. “It’s easy to keep just one,” retorted Cecily, rather resentfully. “It’s not so easy to think beautiful thoughts,” answered Felicity. “It’s the easiest thing in the world,” said the Story Girl, tiptoeing to the edge of the pool to peep at her own arch reflection, as some nymph left over from the golden age might do. “Beautiful thoughts just crowd into your mind at times.” “Oh, yes, AT TIMES. But that’s different from thinking one REGULARLY at a given hour. And mother is always calling up the stairs for me to hurry up and get dressed, and it’s VERY hard sometimes.” “That’s so,” conceded the Story Girl. “There ARE times when I can’t think anything but gray thoughts. Then, other days, I think pink and blue and gold and purple and rainbow thoughts all the time.” “The idea! As if thoughts were coloured,” giggled Felicity. “Oh, they are!” cried the Story Girl. “Why, I can always SEE the colour of any thought I think. Can’t you?” “I never heard of such a thing,” declared Felicity, “and I don’t believe it. I believe you are just making that up.” “Indeed I’m not. Why, I always supposed everyone thought in colours. It must be very tiresome if you don’t.” “When you think of me what colour is it?” asked Peter curiously. “Yellow,” answered the Story Girl promptly. “And Cecily is a sweet pink, like those mayflowers, and Sara Ray is very pale blue, and Dan is red and Felix is yellow, like Peter, and Bev is striped.” “What colour am I?” asked Felicity, amid the laughter at my expense. “You’re—you’re like a rainbow,” answered the Story Girl rather reluctantly. She had to be honest, but she would rather not have complimented Felicity. “And you needn’t laugh at Bev. His stripes are beautiful. It isn’t HE that is striped. It’s just the THOUGHT of him. Peg Bowen is a queer sort of yellowish green and the Awkward Man is lilac. Aunt Olivia is pansy-purple mixed with gold, and Uncle Roger is navy blue.” “I never heard such nonsense,” declared Felicity. The rest of us were rather inclined to agree with her for once. We thought the Story Girl was making fun of us. But I believe she really had a strange gift of thinking in colours. In later years, when we were grown up, she told me of it again. She said that everything had colour in her thought; the months of the year ran through all the tints of the spectrum, the days of the week were arrayed as Solomon in his glory, morning was golden, noon orange, evening crystal blue, and night violet. Every idea came to her mind robed in its own especial hue. Perhaps that was why her voice and words had such a charm, conveying to the listeners’ perception such fine shadings of meaning and tint and music. “Well, let’s go and have something to eat,” suggested Dan. “What colour is eating, Sara?” “Golden brown, just the colour of a molasses cooky,” laughed the Story Girl. We sat on the ferny bank of the pool and ate of the generous basket Aunt Janet had provided, with appetites sharpened by the keen spring air and our wilderness rovings. Felicity had made some very nice sandwiches of ham which we all appreciated except Dan, who declared he didn’t like things minced up and dug out of the basket a chunk of boiled pork which he proceeded to saw up with a jack-knife and devour with gusto. “I told ma to put this in for me. There’s some CHEW to it,” he said. “You are not a bit refined,” commented Felicity. “Not a morsel, my love,” grinned Dan. “You make me think of a story I heard Uncle Roger telling about Cousin Annetta King,” said the Story Girl. “Great-uncle Jeremiah King used to live where Uncle Roger lives now, when Grandfather King was alive and Uncle Roger was a boy. In those days it was thought rather coarse for a young lady to have too hearty an appetite, and she was more admired if she was delicate about what she ate. Cousin Annetta set out to be very refined indeed. She pretended to have no appetite at all. One afternoon she was invited to tea at Grandfather King’s when they had some special company—people from Charlottetown. Cousin Annetta said she could hardly eat anything. ‘You know, Uncle Abraham,’ she said, in a very affected, fine-young-lady voice, ‘I really hardly eat enough to keep a bird alive. Mother says she wonders how I continue to exist.’ And she picked and pecked until Grandfather King declared he would like to throw something at her. After tea Cousin Annetta went home, and just about dark Grandfather King went over to Uncle Jeremiah’s on an errand. As he passed the open, lighted pantry window he happened to glance in, and what do you think he saw? Delicate Cousin Annetta standing at the dresser, with a big loaf of bread beside her and a big platterful of cold, boiled pork in front of her; and Annetta was hacking off great chunks, like Dan there, and gobbling them down as if she was starving. Grandfather King couldn’t resist the temptation. He stepped up to the window and said, ‘I’m glad your appetite has come back to you, Annetta. Your mother needn’t worry about your continuing to exist as long as you can tuck away fat, salt pork in that fashion.’ “Cousin Annetta never forgave him, but she never pretended to be delicate again.” “The Jews don’t believe in eating pork,” said Peter. “I’m glad I’m not a Jew and I guess Cousin Annetta was too,” said Dan. “I like bacon, but I can never look at a pig without wondering if they were ever intended to be eaten,” remarked Cecily naively. When we finished our lunch the barrens were already wrapping themselves in a dim, blue dusk and falling upon rest in dell and dingle. But out in the open there was still much light of a fine emerald-golden sort and the robins whistled us home in it. “Horns of Elfland” never sounded more sweetly around hoary castle and ruined fane than those vesper calls of the robins from the twilight spruce woods and across green pastures lying under the pale radiance of a young moon. When we reached home we found that Miss Reade had been up to the hill farm on an errand and was just leaving. The Story Girl went for a walk with her and came back with an important expression on her face. “You look as if you had a story to tell,” said Felix. “One is growing. It isn’t a whole story yet,” answered the Story Girl mysteriously. “What is it?” asked Cecily. “I can’t tell you till it’s fully grown,” said the Story Girl. “But I’ll tell you a pretty little story the Awkward Man told us—told me—tonight. He was walking in his garden as we went by, looking at his tulip beds. His tulips are up ever so much higher than ours, and I asked him how he managed to coax them along so early. And he said HE didn’t do it—it was all the work of the pixies who lived in the woods across the brook. There were more pixy babies than usual this spring, and the mothers were in a hurry for the cradles. The tulips are the pixy babies’ cradles, it seems. The mother pixies come out of the woods at twilight and rock their tiny little brown babies to sleep in the tulip cups. That is the reason why tulip blooms last so much longer than other blossoms. The pixy babies must have a cradle until they are grown up. They grow very fast, you see, and the Awkward Man says on a spring evening, when the tulips are out, you can hear the sweetest, softest, clearest, fairy music in his garden, and it is the pixy folk singing as they rock the pixy babies to sleep.” “Then the Awkward Man says what isn’t true,” said Felicity severely. About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain. L. M. Montgomery (2008). The Golden Road. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/316/pg316-images.html This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org , located at https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html .

FLOWERS O’ MAY

The Story-book of Science by Jean-Henri Fabre, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here . HONEY CHAPTER LXXIX. HONEY “The bee is diligent: at sunrise it is at work, far from the hive, visiting the flowers one by one. You already know what it is in flowers that attracts insects: I have told you about the nectar, that sweet liquor that oozes out at the bottom of the corolla to entice the little winged people and make them shake the anthers on the stigma. This nectar is what the bee wants. It is its great feast, the great feast also of the little ones and the queen-mother; it is the prime ingredient of honey. How carry home a liquid so that others may enjoy it? The bee possesses neither pitcher, jar, pot, nor anything of the sort. I am wrong: like the ant that carries the plant-lice’s milk to the workers, it is provided with a natural can, stomach, paunch, or crop. “The bee enters a flower, plunges to the bottom of the corolla a long and flexible trunk, a kind of tongue that laps the sweet liquor. Droplet by droplet, drawn from this flower and that, the crop is filled. The bee at the same time nibbles a few grains of pollen. Moreover, it proposes to carry a good load of it to the hive. It has special utensils for this work: first, the down of its body, then the brushes and baskets that its legs supply. The down and the brushes are used for harvesting; the baskets for carrying. “First the bee rolls delightedly among the stamens to cover itself with pollen. Then it passes and re-passes over its velvety body the extremities of its hind legs, where is found a square piece bristling on the inside with short and rough hairs which serve as a brush. The grains of pollen scattered over the down of the insect are thus gathered together into a little pellet, which the intermediary legs seize in order to place it in one or other of the baskets. They call by this name a hollow edged with hair on the outside of the hind legs, a little above the brushes. It is there the pellets of pollen are piled up as fast as the brushes gather them on the powdery down. The load does not fall, because it is held by the hairs that edge the basket; it is also stuck against the bottom. The queen and the drones have not these working implements. Utensils are useless to those who do not work.” “The little yellow masses one sees on the hind legs of bees visiting the flowers are loads of pollen contained in the baskets?” asked Jules. “Exactly. The bee has lapped so much sweet from the corollas, has brushed its pollen-powdered sides so often, that finally the crop is full and the baskets are running over. It is time to go back to the hive, time for a flight made heavy with so much treasure. “Let us take advantage of the time used in the return journey to inform ourselves about the origin of honey. The bee carries with it a sugary liquor in its crop, two balls of pollen in its baskets; but all that is not yet honey. Real honey the bee prepares with the ingredients that we have just seen it gather; it cooks it, lets it simmer in its crop. Its little stomach is better than a real pot for carrying: it is an admirable alembic, in which the liquid that has been lapped up and the grains of pollen that have been nibbled are worked by digestion and converted into a delicious marmalade, which is honey. This skilful cooking finished, the content of the crop is honey. “The bee arrives at the hive. If by good fortune the queen-mother is encountered, the workman does reverence to her and offers her, from mouth to mouth, a sip of honey, the first from its crop. Then it seeks an empty cell, inserts its head into the storeroom, projects its tongue, and spits out the contents of its stomach; and there you have real honey disgorged by the bee.” “Is it all disgorged?” Emile asked. “Not all. The crop’s contents are usually divided into three parts: one for the nurses that remain in the hive to do the housework; a second for the little ones still in the nest; a third kept by the bee that has prepared the honey. Must it not have food in order to work well?” “Then bees feed on honey?” “Without a doubt. You imagined perhaps that bees made honey expressly for man. Undeceive yourself: bees make honey for themselves and not for us. We plunder their riches.” “What becomes of the little balls of pollen?” inquired Jules. “The pollen enters into the making of honey, and serves as nourishment for the bees. The working bee, on its return from harvesting, puts its hind legs into a cell where there is neither larva nor honey, and with the end of its middle legs it detaches the pellets and pushes them to the bottom. In repeating its trips it ends by filling both the cell in which the honey is disgorged and that in which the pollen is stored. The nurses draw on these provisions when they go from cell to cell, distributing small portions to the little ones; thence also they get their own food; in fact, the whole population finds its resources there when bad weather comes. “Flowers do not last all the year, and, moreover, there are days of rest, rainy days when the bees cannot go out. It is necessary, therefore, to have pollen and honey in reserve, and to have a good supply. So, when flowers are plenty and the harvest exceeds immediate requirements, the workers gather honey and pollen untiringly and store it in cells, which they close, as soon as full, with a cover of wax. “These are reserve supplies, safeguards for the future in case of scarcity. The wax cover is religiously respected; it would be a state crime to touch it prematurely. In time of want the seals are removed and each one draws from the open comb, but with restraint and sobriety. The comb exhausted, they break the seals of another.” “How are young bees fed?” was Jules’s next question. “When the cells destined to serve as nests are prepared in sufficient number by the wax-bees, the queen-mother goes from one to another, dragging with much effort her fruitful womb. The nurses form a respectful retinue. One egg, one only, is laid in each cell. In a few days—from three to six—there comes from this egg a larva, a little white worm, without legs, bent like a comma. Now begins the nurses’ delicate work. “They must every day, and several times a day, distribute nourishment to the little worms, not honey or pollen in its natural state, but a preparation of increasing strength such as delicate stomachs need at first. It is, in the beginning, a liquid paste, almost tasteless; then something sweeter; and finally pure honey, nourishment at its full strength. Do we offer a slice of beef to a crying baby? No, but milk first and then pap. Bees do the same: they have honey, strong food, for the strong; and weaker nourishment, tasteless pap, for the weak. How do they prepare these more or less substantial foods? It would be hard to say. Perhaps they mix pollen and honey in different proportions. “In six days the larvæ, called brood-comb, have attained their development. Then, like the larvæ of other insects, they retire from the world to undergo metamorphosis. In order to protect its suffering flesh at the critical moment of its transfiguration, each larva lines the inside of its cell with silk, and the working-bees close the cell with a cover of wax. In the silk-lined case the skin is cast off and the passage to the state of nymph accomplished. Twelve days later the nymph awakes from the deep sleep of the second birth; it shakes itself, tears its narrow swaddling-clothes, and comes forth a bee. The wax cover is gnawed by the inclosed insect as well as by the working-bees lending a ready hand to the resuscitated; and the hive counts one more citizen. The new-born bee makes its toilet a little, dries its wings, polishes its body, and is off to work. It knows its trade without having had to learn it: wax-bee in its youth, nurse in its old age.” About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain. Jean-Henri Fabre (2018). The Story-book of Science. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/56795/pg56795-images.html This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org , located at https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html.

The bee is diligent: at sunrise it is at work, far from the hive, visiting the flowers one by one

The Story-book of Science by Jean-Henri Fabre, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here . FRUIT CHAPTER LX. FRUIT “IT would be knowing a person very little only to be aware of his wearing a garment of a certain material, a coat of such and such a cloth. One does not know a flower any better when one knows that it is clothed with a calyx and a corolla. What is under this covering? A flowering branch of the Gillyflower “Let us examine together this gillyflower. It has a calyx of four sepals and a corolla of four yellow petals. I take away these eight pieces. What is left now is the essential part; that is to say, the thing without which the flower could not fill its rôle and would be perfectly useless. Let us go carefully over this remaining part. You will find it well worth the trouble. “First, there are six little white rods, each one surmounted by a bag full of yellow powder. These six pieces are called stamens. They are found in all flowers in greater or less number. The gillyflower has six, four longer ones arranged in pairs, and two shorter. “The double bag that surmounts the stamen is called an anther. The dust contained in the anther is known as pollen. It is yellow in the gillyflower, lily, and most plants; ashy gray in the poppy.” “You have already told us,” Jules interposed, “how clouds of pollen, raised by the wind in the woods, are the cause of supposed showers of sulphur that frighten people so.” “I take away the six stamens. There remains a central body, swollen at the bottom, narrow at the top, and surmounted by a kind of head wet with a sticky moisture. In its entirety this central body takes the name of pistil; the swelling at the bottom is called an ovary, and the sticky head that terminates it is a stigma.” “What big names for such little things!” exclaimed Jules. “Little, yes; but of unparalleled importance. These little things, my dear friend, give us our daily bread; without the miraculous work of these little things we should die of hunger.” “I will take care to remember their names, then.” “I, too,” chimed in Emile; “but you must go over them again, they are so hard to learn.” Uncle Paul began again. Jules and Emile repeated after him: stamen, anther and pollen; pistil, stigma and ovary. “With a penknife I divide the flower in two. The split ovary shows us what is inside.” “I see little seeds in regular rows in two compartments,” observed Jules. “Do you know what those hardly visible seeds are?” “Not yet.” “They are the future seeds of the plant. The ovary, then, is the part of the plant where the seeds form. At a certain time the flower withers; the petals wilt and fall; the calyx does the same, or remains to play the part of protector a while longer; the dried stamens break off; only the ovary remains, growing larger, ripening, and finally becoming the fruit. “Every fruit—the pear, apple, apricot, peach, walnut, cherry, melon, strawberry, almond, chestnut—began by being a little swelling of the pistil; all these excellent things that the plant furnishes us for food were first ovaries.” “A pear began by being the ovary of a pear blossom?” “Yes, my child; pears, apples, cherries, apricots, begin by being the ovaries of their respective flowers. I will show you an apricot in its blossom.” Uncle Paul took an apricot blossom, opened it with his penknife, and showed the children what is here shown in the picture. “In the heart of the flower you see the pistil surrounded by numerous stamens. The head that terminates it at the top is the stigma; the swelling at the bottom is the ovary or future apricot.” “That little green thing would have been an apricot, full of sweet juice, that I like so much?” inquired Emile. “That little green thing would have become an apricot like those Emile is so fond of. Now would you like to see the ovary that gives us bread?” “Oh, yes! All these things are very curious,” replied Jules. “Better than that, very important.” Claire gave her uncle a needle at his request; then with the delicate patience necessary for this operation he isolated one of the numerous flowers of which the whole forms the ear of wheat. The delicate little flower displayed clearly, on the point of the needle, the different parts composing it. Wheat “The blessed plant that gives us bread has not time to think of its toilet. It has such weighty things to attend to: it must feed the world! So you see what quiet clothes it wears! Two poor scales serve it for calyx and corolla. You can easily recognize three hanging stamens with their double sachets for anthers. The principal body of the flower is the tun-bellied ovary, which, when ripe, will be a grain of wheat. It is surmounted by the stigma, fashioned like a double plume of exquisite delicacy. Salute it, my children: behold the modest little flower that gives life to us all!” About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain. Jean-Henri Fabre (2018). The Story-book of Science. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/56795/pg56795-images.html This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org , located at https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html.

A flowering branch of the Gillyflower

SELECTING THE FLOWER OF MANKIND

In today’s digital age, the demand for high-quality video content is skyrocketing across various sectors, from education to entertainment. AI video generators have emerged as essential tools to meet this growing need, offering innovative solutions that simplify and accelerate the video creation process. Enter Pollo AI, a revolutionary AI-driven video generator that promises to transform how we create and share videos with its smart, user-friendly technology. In this review, we will delve into Pollo AI's features, exploring how it stands out in the crowded field of video generation tools. What Is Pollo AI? Pollo AI is a state-of-the-art AI video generator that can take any text prompt you provide and convert it into a high-quality, professional video clip. For example, by entering a prompt like “A chess match between AI and an alien,” Pollo AI can generate a visual clip that vividly brings your text to life. Its text-to-video functionality makes creating engaging content easier than ever. Pollo AI’s innovative image-to-video feature allows users to transform static images into dynamic, high-class visual outcomes effortlessly. Simply upload an image, and Pollo AI will generate a captivating video that brings the image back to reality with motion and effects. This feature is perfect for creating engaging visual content for social media or educational purposes. How Does Pollo AI Work? Pollo AI is an intuitive tool designed for both first-timers and professionals who need to generate creative and engaging AI videos easily. Here is a comprehensive breakdown of the simple steps to get this platform started: Step 1: Input Text Prompt or Photos To create a video with Pollo AI, simply type your text prompt, like “a bomb exploded in a desert” or “a cat is walking toward a flower, sniffing and licking it,” and Pollo AI will visualize it for you. Additionally, you can upload an image, such as a family photo, and Pollo AI will create a video or animation based on that image. Step 2: Customize Your Input With Pollo AI, you can customize your video using Standard or Professional modes, choose an aspect ratio like 16:9 or 9:16, and control the length of your video. You can also adjust the prompt adherence slider for creative flexibility and select camera movements such as Horizontal Pan or Vertical Pan to tailor your video’s specifics. Step 3: Click Create to Start the Process After inputting all your preferred video settings, the final step is to hit the Create button and let Pollo AI start crafting your video. The processing time may vary based on factors like the use of Professional Mode and the video’s length and complexity, so be patient while Pollo AI works its magic. Step 4: Check Out the Ultimate Creation When the visual content is complete, you can view it directly in your browser. You have the option to watch it multiple times, save it, download it, share it, or use it however you like. If you are not satisfied, you can always return to the drawing board and start the process again. Why Choose Pollo AI? While there are other AI video generators available on the market, Pollo AI stands out as the superior option for creating high-class visual content. Let’s dive into its main features in detail. Text-To-Video Transformation: With a simple text prompt, Pollo AI can bring your ideas to life by identifying crucial elements and visualizing them in a compelling video. This tool creatively interprets your instructions, delivering the perfect video style and content for your specific needs. Refresh the Story of Your Image: Give your static images a dynamic makeover. Along with your text inputs, Pollo AI can breathe life into your visuals by creating videos that narrate their stories while preserving the original content. This smart tool transforms simple images into engaging, story-driven animations. Versatile AI Video Creation: Pollo AI can turn your ideas in mind into videos of any style you desire. Whether you envision lifelike cinematic sequences or creative, stylized animations, Pollo AI offers limitless possibilities to bring your concepts to vibrant life. Rapid Video Production: Its state-of-the-art video generation algorithms are engineered for speed, enabling Pollo AI to produce high-quality videos in mere minutes. Whether you need a quick turnaround for a project or want to see your ideas come to life swiftly, Pollo AI ensures you won’t have to wait long. Exceptional Video Quality: Pollo AI leverages cutting-edge technology to transform your creative ideas into stunning, high-definition videos that meet professional standards. The result is a perfect fusion of innovation and excellence, offering you visually captivating outputs that stand out. Effortless Video Creation: Users do not need any technical video-editing skills to utilize Pollo AI. This AI video generator is designed to be user-friendly and intuitive, simplifying the video creation process. With Pollo AI, anyone can easily create professional-grade videos without prior experience or technical knowledge. Summary Pollo AI sets a new benchmark in the world of video generation with its advanced, user-centric technology. By streamlining the video creation process, it allows users to produce high-quality content quickly and effortlessly, making it an invaluable tool for content creators. In a market crowded with video generation tools, Pollo AI stands out not only for its intelligent features but also for its commitment to delivering exceptional results. Whether you are a novice or a professional, Pollo AI provides the perfect blend of innovation and ease of use, ensuring your visual outcomes are both stunning and impactful. This story was distributed by Margrowth under HackerNoon’s Brand As An Author Program. Learn more about the program here: https://business.hackernoon.com/brand-as-author In today’s digital age, the demand for high-quality video content is skyrocketing across various sectors, from education to entertainment. AI video generators have emerged as essential tools to meet this growing need, offering innovative solutions that simplify and accelerate the video creation process. Enter Pollo AI , a revolutionary AI-driven video generator that promises to transform how we create and share videos with its smart, user-friendly technology. In this review, we will delve into Pollo AI's features, exploring how it stands out in the crowded field of video generation tools. Pollo AI Pollo AI What Is Pollo AI? Pollo AI is a state-of-the-art AI video generator that can take any text prompt you provide and convert it into a high-quality, professional video clip. For example, by entering a prompt like “A chess match between AI and an alien,” Pollo AI can generate a visual clip that vividly brings your text to life. Its text-to-video functionality makes creating engaging content easier than ever. text-to-video text-to-video Pollo AI’s innovative image-to-video feature allows users to transform static images into dynamic, high-class visual outcomes effortlessly. Simply upload an image, and Pollo AI will generate a captivating video that brings the image back to reality with motion and effects. This feature is perfect for creating engaging visual content for social media or educational purposes. image-to-video image-to-video How Does Pollo AI Work? Pollo AI is an intuitive tool designed for both first-timers and professionals who need to generate creative and engaging AI videos easily. Here is a comprehensive breakdown of the simple steps to get this platform started: Step 1: Input Text Prompt or Photos To create a video with Pollo AI, simply type your text prompt, like “a bomb exploded in a desert” or “a cat is walking toward a flower, sniffing and licking it,” and Pollo AI will visualize it for you. Additionally, you can upload an image, such as a family photo, and Pollo AI will create a video or animation based on that image. Step 2: Customize Your Input With Pollo AI, you can customize your video using Standard or Professional modes, choose an aspect ratio like 16:9 or 9:16, and control the length of your video. You can also adjust the prompt adherence slider for creative flexibility and select camera movements such as Horizontal Pan or Vertical Pan to tailor your video’s specifics. Step 3: Click Create to Start the Process After inputting all your preferred video settings, the final step is to hit the Create button and let Pollo AI start crafting your video. The processing time may vary based on factors like the use of Professional Mode and the video’s length and complexity, so be patient while Pollo AI works its magic. Step 4: Check Out the Ultimate Creation When the visual content is complete, you can view it directly in your browser. You have the option to watch it multiple times, save it, download it, share it, or use it however you like. If you are not satisfied, you can always return to the drawing board and start the process again. Why Choose Pollo AI? While there are other AI video generators available on the market, Pollo AI stands out as the superior option for creating high-class visual content. Let’s dive into its main features in detail. Text-To-Video Transformation: With a simple text prompt, Pollo AI can bring your ideas to life by identifying crucial elements and visualizing them in a compelling video. This tool creatively interprets your instructions, delivering the perfect video style and content for your specific needs. Text-To-Video Transformation: With a simple text prompt, Pollo AI can bring your ideas to life by identifying crucial elements and visualizing them in a compelling video. This tool creatively interprets your instructions, delivering the perfect video style and content for your specific needs. Refresh the Story of Your Image: Give your static images a dynamic makeover. Along with your text inputs, Pollo AI can breathe life into your visuals by creating videos that narrate their stories while preserving the original content. This smart tool transforms simple images into engaging, story-driven animations. Refresh the Story of Your Image: Give your static images a dynamic makeover. Along with your text inputs, Pollo AI can breathe life into your visuals by creating videos that narrate their stories while preserving the original content. This smart tool transforms simple images into engaging, story-driven animations. Versatile AI Video Creation: Pollo AI can turn your ideas in mind into videos of any style you desire. Whether you envision lifelike cinematic sequences or creative, stylized animations, Pollo AI offers limitless possibilities to bring your concepts to vibrant life. Versatile AI Video Creation: Pollo AI can turn your ideas in mind into videos of any style you desire. Whether you envision lifelike cinematic sequences or creative, stylized animations, Pollo AI offers limitless possibilities to bring your concepts to vibrant life. Rapid Video Production: Its state-of-the-art video generation algorithms are engineered for speed, enabling Pollo AI to produce high-quality videos in mere minutes. Whether you need a quick turnaround for a project or want to see your ideas come to life swiftly, Pollo AI ensures you won’t have to wait long. Rapid Video Production: Its state-of-the-art video generation algorithms are engineered for speed, enabling Pollo AI to produce high-quality videos in mere minutes. Whether you need a quick turnaround for a project or want to see your ideas come to life swiftly, Pollo AI ensures you won’t have to wait long. Exceptional Video Quality: Pollo AI leverages cutting-edge technology to transform your creative ideas into stunning, high-definition videos that meet professional standards. The result is a perfect fusion of innovation and excellence, offering you visually captivating outputs that stand out. Exceptional Video Quality: Pollo AI leverages cutting-edge technology to transform your creative ideas into stunning, high-definition videos that meet professional standards. The result is a perfect fusion of innovation and excellence, offering you visually captivating outputs that stand out. Effortless Video Creation: Users do not need any technical video-editing skills to utilize Pollo AI. This AI video generator is designed to be user-friendly and intuitive, simplifying the video creation process. With Pollo AI, anyone can easily create professional-grade videos without prior experience or technical knowledge. Effortless Video Creation: Users do not need any technical video-editing skills to utilize Pollo AI. This AI video generator is designed to be user-friendly and intuitive, simplifying the video creation process. With Pollo AI, anyone can easily create professional-grade videos without prior experience or technical knowledge. Summary Pollo AI sets a new benchmark in the world of video generation with its advanced, user-centric technology. By streamlining the video creation process, it allows users to produce high-quality content quickly and effortlessly, making it an invaluable tool for content creators. Pollo AI Pollo AI In a market crowded with video generation tools, Pollo AI stands out not only for its intelligent features but also for its commitment to delivering exceptional results. Whether you are a novice or a professional, Pollo AI provides the perfect blend of innovation and ease of use, ensuring your visual outcomes are both stunning and impactful. This story was distributed by Margrowth under HackerNoon’s Brand As An Author Program. Learn more about the program here: https://business.hackernoon.com/brand-as-author This story was distributed by Margrowth under HackerNoon’s Brand As An Author Program. Learn more about the program here: https://business.hackernoon.com/brand-as-author This story was distributed by Margrowth under HackerNoon’s Brand As An Author Program. Learn more about the program here: https://business.hackernoon.com/brand-as-author https://business.hackernoon.com/brand-as-author

Pollo AI Review: Intelligent AI-Based Video Generator

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Reseña de Pollo AI: generador de videos inteligente basado en inteligencia artificial

סקירת Pollo AI: מחולל וידאו חכם מבוסס בינה מלאכותית

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How can entrepreneurs reach their target audience, which no longer responds to traditional advertising and PR? How should they promote their product? And what tools can they use to take their brands to the next level? Here are three creative trends that can help solve these challenges. Trend No. 1: Create an Exclusive Circle People have always formed groups—business clubs, hobby circles, income-level-based communities. In contrast to globalization and scalable successful products, people are increasingly seeking local and intimate experiences. Small events are considered more valuable than those aimed at a wide audience. In a world with a fast pace of events and large volumes of information, a consumer values the opinion of someone within their circle more. There is a demand for events that make people feel as part of a small, exclusive community. Literary evenings, home concerts, poetry readings, secret bars, group lecture viewings followed by discussions—these "meaningful" private events are currently experiencing a renaissance. So, my advice to all entrepreneurs: to promote your brand, join existing gatherings or organize offline events for your clients—such as charity dinners, poetry readings, or private movie screenings. Trend No. 2: Hybrid Formats Brands that can satisfy more than one customer need are currently winning. A striking example of this trend is multifunctional spaces: a bookstore where you can have a glass of wine or a beauty salon offering flowers for sale and takeaway coffee. Imagine you don't know what to cook for dinner. You go to the store for groceries and stumble upon a cooking master class by a chef. The store essentially satisfies two needs—offering a recipe and selling the ingredients. Think about what additional needs you can satisfy for your client. Here's an idea for cosmetics store owners and women’s clothing retailers: set up a PlayStation area for men who come shopping with their partners—and everyone will be happy. Trend No. 3: Transmedia Content Transmedia means that different content from the same project is published on various platforms, with each platform offering its unique ways to tell the story. In simpler terms, the stories are different, the platforms are different, but they all exist within the same universe. For example, Disney's "Star Wars" includes a series on Disney+, full-length movies, comics that explore secondary characters, and video games. This approach can and should be used to create a brand's content strategy. For example, you can turn a podcast into a series of posts on Telegram—for users who don’t like audio. To implement a transmedia promotional strategy, you can use niche channels and content creators who focus on specific topics. In addition to traditional media, social networks, and Telegram, products and services can be promoted through less obvious channels, such as building a personal brand on the recruitment network LinkedIn. Conclusion When developing a personalized marketing strategy, businesses should combine these three trends in proportions that depend on the shortest path to their target audience. Even if an entrepreneur dislikes TikTok, including them in their media strategy could lead to the highest conversion rates. How can entrepreneurs reach their target audience, which no longer responds to traditional advertising and PR? How should they promote their product? And what tools can they use to take their brands to the next level? Here are three creative trends that can help solve these challenges. Trend No. 1: Create an Exclusive Circle People have always formed groups—business clubs, hobby circles, income-level-based communities. In contrast to globalization and scalable successful products, people are increasingly seeking local and intimate experiences. Small events are considered more valuable than those aimed at a wide audience. In a world with a fast pace of events and large volumes of information, a consumer values the opinion of someone within their circle more. There is a demand for events that make people feel as part of a small, exclusive community. Literary evenings, home concerts, poetry readings, secret bars, group lecture viewings followed by discussions—these "meaningful" private events are currently experiencing a renaissance. So, my advice to all entrepreneurs: to promote your brand, join existing gatherings or organize offline events for your clients—such as charity dinners, poetry readings, or private movie screenings. Trend No. 2: Hybrid Formats Brands that can satisfy more than one customer need are currently winning. A striking example of this trend is multifunctional spaces: a bookstore where you can have a glass of wine or a beauty salon offering flowers for sale and takeaway coffee. Imagine you don't know what to cook for dinner. You go to the store for groceries and stumble upon a cooking master class by a chef. The store essentially satisfies two needs—offering a recipe and selling the ingredients. Think about what additional needs you can satisfy for your client. Here's an idea for cosmetics store owners and women’s clothing retailers: set up a PlayStation area for men who come shopping with their partners—and everyone will be happy. Trend No. 3: Transmedia Content Transmedia means that different content from the same project is published on various platforms, with each platform offering its unique ways to tell the story. In simpler terms, the stories are different, the platforms are different, but they all exist within the same universe. For example, Disney's "Star Wars" includes a series on Disney+, full-length movies, comics that explore secondary characters, and video games. This approach can and should be used to create a brand's content strategy. For example, you can turn a podcast into a series of posts on Telegram—for users who don’t like audio. To implement a transmedia promotional strategy, you can use niche channels and content creators who focus on specific topics. In addition to traditional media, social networks, and Telegram, products and services can be promoted through less obvious channels, such as building a personal brand on the recruitment network LinkedIn. Conclusion When developing a personalized marketing strategy, businesses should combine these three trends in proportions that depend on the shortest path to their target audience. Even if an entrepreneur dislikes TikTok, including them in their media strategy could lead to the highest conversion rates.

Top 3 Trends in the Creative Industry

Welcome to HackerNoon’s Startups of The Year 2024 interview series, spotlighting startups from around the world that are changing the way we live, one solution at a time. If you’ve been nominated, create a brand profile and answer these questions here.
Want to nominate a startup? Follow the steps here.Use the following sections to tell readers about your startup and get them to vote for you! These questions are designed to help tell readers about your company and vision and you do NOT need to answer all of them. Answer the ones that you feel can provide the most information.Looking for inspiration? Check out how other startups responded to last year’s Startups of The Year interview questions and examples of company responses here, here, and here. Wanna use this template? Click here. Hey Hackers![Insert your Startup name] has been nominated inHackerNoon's Startups of The Year 2024 awards in [enter city name your startup is based], [country] under the Media category. Please vote for us here: [insert URL to startup voting page for your city] [insert URL to startup voting page for your parent industry] [insert URL to startup voting page for your (3) sub industries] Read more about us below to understand why we deserve your vote. Tell us what your Startup is all about Give us your elevator pitch
Share an image of your startup team, logo, product, etc. What inspired you to launch your startup in the Media industry, and what unique value does your company bring to this space? 1-2 paragraphs giving us your pitch about why your startup stands out and should top the SOTY charts! What have been the biggest challenges in disrupting the traditional media and entertainment landscape, and how has your startup overcome them? 1-2 paragraphs letting us know some of your biggest achievements. Give yourself the flowers you deserve! How do you stay ahead of the rapidly changing trends and technologies in the Media industry to ensure your startup remains relevant and competitive? 1-2 paragraphs about how you position yourself as number 1 in a competitive field What are your long-term vision and goals for your company, and how do you plan to continue innovating and growing in the future? 1-2 paragraphs about where you want to take your company. Let us feel good about the future! Final Thoughts 1-2 paragraphs with anything else you would like to say Vote for us today! [Insert link to startup voting page for your city, parent industry, or sub industry]. Welcome to HackerNoon’s Startups of The Year 2024 interview series, spotlighting startups from around the world that are changing the way we live, one solution at a time. If you’ve been nominated, create a brand profile and answer these questions here. Want to nominate a startup? Follow the steps here. Use the following sections to tell readers about your startup and get them to vote for you! These questions are designed to help tell readers about your company and vision and you do NOT need to answer all of them. Answer the ones that you feel can provide the most information. Looking for inspiration? Check out how other startups responded to last year’s Startups of The Year interview questions and examples of company responses here, here, and here. Welcome to HackerNoon’s Startups of The Year 2024 interview series, spotlighting startups from around the world that are changing the way we live, one solution at a time. If you’ve been nominated, create a brand profile and answer these questions here . Startups of The Year 2024 create a brand profile create a brand profile create a brand profile here here Want to nominate a startup? Follow the steps here . here here Use the following sections to tell readers about your startup and get them to vote for you! These questions are designed to help tell readers about your company and vision and you do NOT need to answer all of them. Answer the ones that you feel can provide the most information. you do NOT need to answer all of them. Answer the ones that you feel can provide the most information. Looking for inspiration? Check out how other startups responded to last year’s Startups of The Year interview questions and examples of company responses here, here, and here. Looking for inspiration? Check out how other startups responded to last year’s Startups of The Year interview questions and examples of company responses here , here , and here . last year’s Startups of The Year interview questions last year’s Startups of The Year interview questions here here here here here here Wanna use this template? Click here. Wanna use this template? Click here . here Hey Hackers! [Insert your Startup name] has been nominated in HackerNoon's Startups of The Year 2024 awards in [enter city name your startup is based], [country] under the Media category. HackerNoon's Startups of The Year 2024 Media Please vote for us here: Please vote for us here: [insert URL to startup voting page for your city] [insert URL to startup voting page for your parent industry] [insert URL to startup voting page for your (3) sub industries] Read more about us below to understand why we deserve your vote. Tell us what your Startup is all about Give us your elevator pitch
Share an image of your startup team, logo, product, etc. Give us your elevator pitch Share an image of your startup team, logo, product, etc. Give us your elevator pitch Share an image of your startup team, logo, product, etc. What inspired you to launch your startup in the Media industry, and what unique value does your company bring to this space? 1-2 paragraphs giving us your pitch about why your startup stands out and should top the SOTY charts! 1-2 paragraphs giving us your pitch about why your startup stands out and should top the SOTY charts! What have been the biggest challenges in disrupting the traditional media and entertainment landscape, and how has your startup overcome them? 1-2 paragraphs letting us know some of your biggest achievements. Give yourself the flowers you deserve! 1-2 paragraphs letting us know some of your biggest achievements. Give yourself the flowers you deserve! How do you stay ahead of the rapidly changing trends and technologies in the Media industry to ensure your startup remains relevant and competitive? 1-2 paragraphs about how you position yourself as number 1 in a competitive field 1-2 paragraphs about how you position yourself as number 1 in a competitive field What are your long-term vision and goals for your company, and how do you plan to continue innovating and growing in the future? 1-2 paragraphs about where you want to take your company. Let us feel good about the future! 1-2 paragraphs about where you want to take your company. Let us feel good about the future! Final Thoughts 1-2 paragraphs with anything else you would like to say 1-2 paragraphs with anything else you would like to say Vote for us today! [Insert link to startup voting page for your city, parent industry, or sub industry]. Vote for us today! [Insert link to startup voting page for your city, parent industry, or sub industry].

Startups of The Year 2024: Media Interview

Welcome to HackerNoon’s Startups of The Year 2024 interview series, spotlighting startups from around the world that are changing the way we live, one solution at a time. If you’ve been nominated, create a brand profile and answer these questions here.
Want to nominate a startup? Follow the steps here.Use the following sections to tell readers about your startup and get them to vote for you! These questions are designed to help tell readers about your company and vision and you do NOT need to answer all of them. Answer the ones that you feel can provide the most information.Looking for inspiration? Check out how other startups responded to last year’s Startups of The Year interview questions and examples of company responses here, here, and here. Wanna use this template? Click here. Hey Hackers![Insert your Startup name] has been nominated inHackerNoon's Startups of The Year 2024 awards in [enter city name your startup is based], [country] under the Education category. Please vote for us here: [insert URL to startup voting page for your city] [insert URL to startup voting page for your parent industry] [insert URL to startup voting page for your (3) sub industries] Read more about us below to understand why we deserve your vote. What motivated you to start your company in the education and learning sector, and what specific gaps or needs in the market are you addressing? Give us your elevator pitch
Share an image of your startup team, logo, product, etc. Can you explain how your educational technology or approach enhances the learning experience for students compared to traditional methods? 1-2 paragraphs giving us your pitch about why your startup stands out and should top the SOTY charts! What have been some of the most significant milestones or achievements for your startup, and how do you think they contributed to your nomination for Startups of The Year? 1-2 paragraphs letting us know some of your biggest achievements. Give yourself the flowers you deserve! What challenges have you encountered in integrating technology with education, and how have you addressed issues such as accessibility, user engagement, and scalability? 1-2 paragraphs about how your Startup makes the learning process better What are your future plans for expanding your startup's offerings, and how do you envision the role of technology in shaping the future of education? 1-2 paragraphs about where you want to take your company. Let us feel good about the future! Final Thoughts 1-2 paragraphs with anything else you would like to say Vote for us today! [Insert link to startup voting page for your city, parent industry, or sub industry]. Welcome to HackerNoon’s Startups of The Year 2024 interview series, spotlighting startups from around the world that are changing the way we live, one solution at a time. If you’ve been nominated, create a brand profile and answer these questions here. Want to nominate a startup? Follow the steps here. Use the following sections to tell readers about your startup and get them to vote for you! These questions are designed to help tell readers about your company and vision and you do NOT need to answer all of them. Answer the ones that you feel can provide the most information. Looking for inspiration? Check out how other startups responded to last year’s Startups of The Year interview questions and examples of company responses here, here, and here. Welcome to HackerNoon’s Startups of The Year 2024 interview series, spotlighting startups from around the world that are changing the way we live, one solution at a time. If you’ve been nominated, create a brand profile and answer these questions here . Startups of The Year 2024 create a brand profile create a brand profile create a brand profile here here Want to nominate a startup? Follow the steps here . here here Use the following sections to tell readers about your startup and get them to vote for you! These questions are designed to help tell readers about your company and vision and you do NOT need to answer all of them. Answer the ones that you feel can provide the most information. you do NOT need to answer all of them. Answer the ones that you feel can provide the most information. Looking for inspiration? Check out how other startups responded to last year’s Startups of The Year interview questions and examples of company responses here, here, and here. Looking for inspiration? Check out how other startups responded to last year’s Startups of The Year interview questions and examples of company responses here , here , and here . last year’s Startups of The Year interview questions last year’s Startups of The Year interview questions here here here here here here Wanna use this template? Click here. Wanna use this template? Click here . here Hey Hackers! [Insert your Startup name] has been nominated in HackerNoon's Startups of The Year 2024 awards in [enter city name your startup is based], [country] under the Education category. HackerNoon's Startups of The Year 2024 Education Please vote for us here: Please vote for us here: [insert URL to startup voting page for your city] [insert URL to startup voting page for your parent industry] [insert URL to startup voting page for your (3) sub industries] Read more about us below to understand why we deserve your vote. What motivated you to start your company in the education and learning sector, and what specific gaps or needs in the market are you addressing? Give us your elevator pitch
Share an image of your startup team, logo, product, etc. Give us your elevator pitch Share an image of your startup team, logo, product, etc. Give us your elevator pitch Share an image of your startup team, logo, product, etc. Can you explain how your educational technology or approach enhances the learning experience for students compared to traditional methods? 1-2 paragraphs giving us your pitch about why your startup stands out and should top the SOTY charts! 1-2 paragraphs giving us your pitch about why your startup stands out and should top the SOTY charts! What have been some of the most significant milestones or achievements for your startup, and how do you think they contributed to your nomination for Startups of The Year? 1-2 paragraphs letting us know some of your biggest achievements. Give yourself the flowers you deserve! 1-2 paragraphs letting us know some of your biggest achievements. Give yourself the flowers you deserve! What challenges have you encountered in integrating technology with education, and how have you addressed issues such as accessibility, user engagement, and scalability? 1-2 paragraphs about how your Startup makes the learning process better 1-2 paragraphs about how your Startup makes the learning process better What are your future plans for expanding your startup's offerings, and how do you envision the role of technology in shaping the future of education? 1-2 paragraphs about where you want to take your company. Let us feel good about the future! 1-2 paragraphs about where you want to take your company. Let us feel good about the future! Final Thoughts 1-2 paragraphs with anything else you would like to say 1-2 paragraphs with anything else you would like to say Vote for us today! [Insert link to startup voting page for your city, parent industry, or sub industry]. Vote for us today! [Insert link to startup voting page for your city, parent industry, or sub industry].

Startups of the Year 2024: Education Interview

Welcome to HackerNoon’s Startups of The Year 2024 interview series, spotlighting startups from around the world that are changing the way we live, one solution at a time. If you’ve been nominated, create a brand profile and answer these questions here.
Want to nominate a startup? Follow the steps here.Use the following sections to tell readers about your startup and get them to vote for you! These questions are designed to help tell readers about your company and vision and you do NOT need to answer all of them. Answer the ones that you feel can provide the most information.Looking for inspiration? Check out how other startups responded to last year’s Startups of The Year interview questions and examples of company responses here, here, and here. Wanna use this template? Click here. Hey Hackers![Insert your Startup name] has been nominated inHackerNoon's Startups of The Year 2024 awards in [enter city name your startup is based], [country] under the AI category. Please vote for us here: [insert URL to startup voting page for your city] [insert URL to startup voting page for your parent industry] [insert URL to startup voting page for your (3) sub industries] Read more about us below to understand why we deserve your vote. Can you tell us about the journey of your startup? What inspired you to go into AI, and what were some of the initial challenges you faced? Give us your elevator pitch
Share an image of your startup team, logo, product, etc. How has your Startup differentiated itself from other AI solutions in the market? 1-2 paragraphs giving us your pitch about why your startup stands out and should top the SOTY charts! What have been some of your most significant milestones or achievements to date? 1-2 paragraphs letting us know some of your biggest achievements. Give yourself the flowers you deserve! What are your future plans and goals for your Startup? How do you see your AI technology evolving in the next five years? 1-2 paragraphs about where you want to take your company. Let us feel good about the future! Final Thoughts 1-2 paragraphs with anything else you would like to say Vote for us today! [Insert link to startup voting page for your city, parent industry, or sub industry]. Welcome to HackerNoon’s Startups of The Year 2024 interview series, spotlighting startups from around the world that are changing the way we live, one solution at a time. If you’ve been nominated, create a brand profile and answer these questions here. Want to nominate a startup? Follow the steps here. Use the following sections to tell readers about your startup and get them to vote for you! These questions are designed to help tell readers about your company and vision and you do NOT need to answer all of them. Answer the ones that you feel can provide the most information. Looking for inspiration? Check out how other startups responded to last year’s Startups of The Year interview questions and examples of company responses here, here, and here. Welcome to HackerNoon’s Startups of The Year 2024 interview series, spotlighting startups from around the world that are changing the way we live, one solution at a time. If you’ve been nominated, create a brand profile and answer these questions here . Startups of The Year 2024 create a brand profile create a brand profile create a brand profile here here Want to nominate a startup? Follow the steps here . here here Use the following sections to tell readers about your startup and get them to vote for you! These questions are designed to help tell readers about your company and vision and you do NOT need to answer all of them. Answer the ones that you feel can provide the most information. you do NOT need to answer all of them. Answer the ones that you feel can provide the most information. Looking for inspiration? Check out how other startups responded to last year’s Startups of The Year interview questions and examples of company responses here, here, and here. Looking for inspiration? Check out how other startups responded to last year’s Startups of The Year interview questions and examples of company responses here , here , and here . last year’s Startups of The Year interview questions last year’s Startups of The Year interview questions here here here here here here Wanna use this template? Click here. Wanna use this template? Click here . here Hey Hackers! [Insert your Startup name] has been nominated in HackerNoon's Startups of The Year 2024 awards in [enter city name your startup is based], [country] under the AI category . HackerNoon's Startups of The Year 2024 AI category Please vote for us here: Please vote for us here: [insert URL to startup voting page for your city] [insert URL to startup voting page for your parent industry] [insert URL to startup voting page for your (3) sub industries] Read more about us below to understand why we deserve your vote. Can you tell us about the journey of your startup? What inspired you to go into AI, and what were some of the initial challenges you faced? Give us your elevator pitch
Share an image of your startup team, logo, product, etc. Give us your elevator pitch Share an image of your startup team, logo, product, etc. Give us your elevator pitch Share an image of your startup team, logo, product, etc. How has your Startup differentiated itself from other AI solutions in the market? 1-2 paragraphs giving us your pitch about why your startup stands out and should top the SOTY charts! 1-2 paragraphs giving us your pitch about why your startup stands out and should top the SOTY charts! What have been some of your most significant milestones or achievements to date? 1-2 paragraphs letting us know some of your biggest achievements. Give yourself the flowers you deserve! 1-2 paragraphs letting us know some of your biggest achievements. Give yourself the flowers you deserve! What are your future plans and goals for your Startup? How do you see your AI technology evolving in the next five years? 1-2 paragraphs about where you want to take your company. Let us feel good about the future! 1-2 paragraphs about where you want to take your company. Let us feel good about the future! Final Thoughts 1-2 paragraphs with anything else you would like to say 1-2 paragraphs with anything else you would like to say Vote for us today! [Insert link to startup voting page for your city, parent industry, or sub industry]. Vote for us today! [Insert link to startup voting page for your city, parent industry, or sub industry].

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