Watermelons, avocados, apples, onions, carrots, squash, tangerines—these fruits and vegetables come to your dinner table thanks in large part to the industry of the tiny honey bee. Better Bees, a podcast from KQED Public Broadcasting (part of iTunes U) explains what researchers are doing to ensure that the honey bee survives deadly mites, Colony Collapse Disorder, and other threats to their survival.

“‘We’re seeing more requests outside of creative services to switch to Macs from PCs,’ notes David Plavin.” In fact, the operations manager for the Publicis Groupe explained to Galen Gruman (infoworld.com) that he’s received so many requests that he “now supports 2,500 Macs across the U.S. — nearly a quarter of all Publicis’ U.S. PCs.”

Jim Dalrymple (macworld.com), still going strong on his recording project, knew he wanted to write “a traditional type blues song—nothing too complicated, just a good slow blues number in A.” But even though he knew what he wanted, laying down some tracks proved harder than he thought. Until, that is, Dalrymple remembered Magic GarageBand. Just 45 seconds later, he “had the perfect slow blues song playing, while I filled in the leads.”