…DNA barcodes) for the world’s macrolepidoptera”, which “would be a wonderful lever for bringing new resources into the field.” A central theme echoed in many of the pieces is the…
We share in the pride of everyone at The Rockefeller University that it ranked #1 in a recent survey of the impact of research of 750 universities around the world….
…orders also match current understanding, including for example, that flycatchers appear as the basal lineage within passeriformes, and a group of New World passerines called nine-primaried oscines appear together at…
…article about professional master’s programs appeared in The Scientist on 3 April 2000 – Designer Degrees or Academic Alchemy? – Professional master’s programs attempt to teach skills for todays world…
…and limit public access to biological knowlege. The DNA barcode initiative, together with the Encyclopedia of Life which includes digitizing the world’s taxonomic literature are creating powerful new ways of…
…interest in birds, it is surprising there is no single authoritative world checklist, especially since most of the differences at the species level reflect minor disagreements about generic assignment, a…
…what happened to USA energy use and emissions during the slumps of the 1930s and after World War II.  A short essay, “The Jack Rabbit of Depression, or Do…
…Paul Gaffney; Vice Admiral Richard Larrabee, USCG (Ret.), Port Commerce Director, Port Authority of NY/NJ; Lawrence Dickerson, President and CEO, Diamond Offshore Drilling; and Christopher Koch, President and CEO, World…
…https://vimeo.com/17662204 The recording was played at the London Grand Finale of the CoML in October 2010. The Steve Miller Band played the song several times during their 2010-2011 world tour….
…how finely divided animal biodiversity is. Wilson and Reeder’s Mammal Species of the World, Third Edition lists 5,419 species, so this appears to be an achievable goal for our mammalian…