How Did Noah’s Ark Float?
…were wiped out 65 million years ago. Government officials trying to protect the modern world’s wildlife gather in Bonn from May 19-30 for a meeting of the U.N. Convention on…
Search Results for: Video cleantalkorg2.ru Breaking News Breaking News Live Updates news am breaking news today BBC News World CNN International
Encylopedia of Life opens, another step toward global commons of biodiversity knowledge
…to internet resources including Biodiversity Heritage Library (2.9 million pages digitized). In case you missed it, there is a thrilling, award-winning video. Following Wikipedia model, EOL users are invited to…
Retrospective on the Census of Marine Life
The Consortium for Ocean Leadership (COL) hosted a virtual symposium entitled Observing Life in a Changing Ocean: Exploring a ‘Census of Marine Life’ Today, on January 27, 2021. The Census…
CoML Scientific Steering Committee receives the 2011 International Cosmos Prize
On 27 July 2011, the International Cosmos Prize committee announced the Census of Marine Life Scientific Steering Committee as the recipient of the 2011 International Cosmos Prize. Established in 1993…
Visions of the 21st Century
…could see foamed glass replace much of the concrete in today’s buildings. There are limits, of course, to how many lives you can give a pile of debris. In the long…
4th International Barcode of Life Conference
The 4th International Barcode of Life Conference held in Adelaide, Australia, in December 2011 has now posted the presentations, including Mark Stoeckle on the All Birds Barcoding Initiative. Also posted…
The Virtual Ecology of Industry
JH Ausubel. Journal of Industrial Ecology
1 (1):
10–11
1997
…colonies. Jet pilots and nuclear power plant operators train on video displays before their hands wield the actual controls. Numerical models form the basis of all these simulations. What are…
An article in Investor’s Business Daily
…storms and rampant tropical diseases reveal, once again, the brainless-human theory at work. This has long been a problem with the Jeremiahs of the environmental movement. They predict utter ruin…
Dis the Threat Industry
JH Ausubel. Technological Forecasting and Society Change
62 (2):
119–120
1999
The CIA for decades overstated the size of the Soviet economy and thus its threat to the USA. Worldwatchers have yearly forecast a food crisis from the exhaustion of soil…
Trans-Atlantic DNA survey reveals overlooked avian diversity in scientific heartland
…Ernst Mayr compiled a world list of 8,616 species, which he judged to be “within 5 percent and certainly 10% of the final total”. The current IOC World Bird List…