IBM Quantum Leap

The Program for the Human Environment is featured in an article on Dematerialization posted on the IBM home page Quantum Leaps section….

CoML update

Superb stories on the Census of Marine Life appeared 13 February in the leading German weekly, Der Spiegel, and 22 February in the leading Brazilian weekly, Veja….

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…

Quiet Ocean plan published

…Urban, Sophie Seeyave and others who contributed to this excellent document, now endorsed by the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) and Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO)….

Two Carnegie Reports

Two new links to full text reports: International Environmental Research and Assessment: Proposals for Better Organization and Decision Making and Facing Toward Governments: Nongovernmental Organizations and Scientific and Technical Advice….

Barcoding Birds

…by DarÃo A. Lijtmaer, Kevin C. R. Kerr, Mark Y. Stoeckle, and Pablo L. Tubaro as well as a foreword by Jesse Ausubel (see 27 June 2011 What’s New entry)….