“Human beings and honey bees are almost the same word.” According to Prof. Thomas Seeley, the Horace White Professor in Biology Emeritus, in addition to these phonetic similarities, honey bees also possess a communicative ability that no other species besides humans has — the ability to direct their hive mates to rich food sources by giving them direction and distance information. Seeley presented his latest book, Piping-Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners: 20 Mysteries of Honey Bee Behavior Solved in a Nov. 21 book talk organized through Mann Library’s Chats in the Stacks — a series featuring the recent publications of Cornell faculty.  Seeley is an Ithaca native and has been…