A Sculpture Controlled by Live Honeybees

I've seen this, it wasn't super impressive, just a pretty sculpture with classical music playing and no recognisable connection between the music or sculpture and the bees when you're actually there.

Kew Gardens is beautiful though, if expensive to enter (somebody's parent will have a membership card and they aren't draconian about checking names so if you visit Kew or London, worth poking social media to save £40).

title should have been "A sculpture playing sound controlled by live honeybees". I spent some time reading before i realized bees dont physically interact with this odd thing

OT: What's with sites wanting to show me notifications? Why on earth would I allow this?

If you have a website as a desktop daemon (like a calendar app), it's handy. But mainly it's a way to put more ads in your line of sight.

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3220216

chrome://settings/content/notifications?search=notifications

Because you love the smithsonian so much you're interested in letting them run a web worker and send you push notificaitons forever