Next up, bees
On 15 may 2008 an international assembly of bee experts gathered at York University and announced a new initiative to DNA barcode world’s bees. Some snippets from news reports: “According…
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…applications. BOLD, the publicly-available library of DNA barcodes, contains over 800,000 records from over 70,000 species. A new international effort, iBOL, is underway to establish DNA barcode libraries for 5…
IQOE on the radio
The International Quiet Ocean Experiment is the subject of a good segment on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered news program prepared by Sasha Pfeiffer and Lynn Jolicoeur at WBUR…
Maglevs and the Vision of St. Hubert [PDF]
JH Ausubel. Challenges of a Changing Earth
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2002
(Proceedings of the Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 10-13 July 2001)
…2000 and a USA city of 500,000 people with the 2000 diet but the yields of 1920. Farming as Americans did 80 years ago while eating as Americans do now…
Optimistic About Our Environmental Future
A column about us, “Optimistic about our environmental future”, is syndicated in many newspapers across the country. By MITZI PERDUE, Scripps Howard News Service September 11, 2000 As director of…
Sometimes taxonomy moves slowly, could use help
In 1998, as part of biodiversity survey to assess the health of New York City’s Central Park, researchers at the American Museum of Natural History collected leaf litter samples. After…
Dutch life hours worked
…from 23% for the 1840 birth cohort to 9%for the 1950 birth cohort. The finding resembles what Jesse and Arnulf found for American males. Technology lifts productivity and lengthens lives,…
Added section on Daedalus
Added section on Daedalus – The Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences special issue on “the liberation of the environment.” We also updated our list of publications….
WilsonBook Energy Speech
Venerable (1898) publisher H W Wilson periodically compiles major American speeches. Representative Speeches 2008-2009 edited by Brian Boucher balances the Inaugural Address and two other speeches by Barack Obama with…
DNA barcoding maps unknowns in Iraq
…J N Am Benthol Soc, researchers from U.S. National Museum of Natural History, The American University of Iraq-Sulaimani, and University of Guelph report on DNA barcoding to facilitate biomonitoring in…