Oceans song by Bruno Coulais

…voices be quiet Slumbering in deep-sea trenches One can hear a rumbling thunder Merging into the endless skies Dancing for joy In a wind of splendor That will keep blowing…

“Taxonomy for the twenty-first century” and “DNA barcoding of life”: special theme issues of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society available online

“Taxonomy for the twenty-first century” the 29 April 2004 special theme issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Biological Sciences is available online. Allen Herre recommends this compilation as…

ABBI issues Inaugural Workshop Report

The All Birds Barcoding Initiative (ABBI) issued its Inaugural Workshop Report. The meeting was attended by 48 participants from 23 countries. At the close of the meeting, co-chair Allan Baker…

American Superconductor Corporartion

We and our associates are well-known fans of magnetically levitated trains for high-speed transport. We are pleased to learn that the experimental Japanese maglev train attained speeds as high as…