…Small-scale traditional “community forestry” could also deliver a small fraction of industrial wood. Such arrangements, in which forest dwellers, often indigenous peoples, earn revenue from commercial timber, can provide essential…
…people to combine ideas. They provide filters and competition for selection and set the market niche for new ideas and products. The technological paradigms for the world emerge from the…
…appears… Spineless, the incomparable photographer Susan Middleton’s book on invertebrates, has appeared. A good article https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/gorgeous-portraits-spineless-sea-creatures-180953078/?no-ist For sale at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Spineless-Susan-Middleton/dp/1419710079/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414756006&sr=1-1 This was also an exhibit at SFO airport: https://www.flysfo.com/content/museum-exhibit-spineless-portraits-marine-invertebrates…
…phyla, classes, orders, families, and genera: https://www.obis.org.au/irmng/index.html/document_view  OBIS itself continues to grow and now has more than 37 million records on more than 120,000 species from more than 1300…
Mark Stoeckle presented recent eDNA work assessing marine fish diversity and abundance at OneNOAA Science Seminar Series on August 26, 2020. The recorded presentation and lively discussion is available online…
…Brewster Kahle. Community College Research Center In 1996, with encouragement and resources from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Teachers College of Columbia University undertook to establish the Community College Research…
…declared “beyond the pale of Islam” by an international panel of Muslim jurists in 1974; Ahmadis believe that the second coming of Christ happened in India nearly a century ago…
…anyone here from Philadelphia? Now mating behavior is certainly a domain in which people consider themselves free, if not in India at least in the USA. So, it may come…
The entire issue of Population and Development Review with our article about Peak Farmland is now online: Population and Public Policy: Essays in Honor of Paul Demeny https://www.popcouncil.org/publications/books/2012_PDRSuppPopPublicPolicy.asp and will…
…Final Report and press release summarize the conference proceedings and outline concrete steps forward. The Conference attracted coverage in Science online and print, and National Geographic online, reflecting the excitement…