Approximately 8,000 – 15,000 species of bivalves (clams, mussels, scallops, oysters, and relatives) are known. According to BOLD Taxonomy Browser www.barcodinglife.org, 620 bivalve species have COI barcode records so far,…
Jesse’s niece, Ramona Ausubel, has published a novel, The Last Animal, about a woolly mammoth starting a modern life. A companion essay, Science and Fiction Are Experiments That Ask the…
…living longer: Long-term trends in working time and time budgets. de Koning finds the number of hours Dutchmen work during their lives gradually diminished. Men born in 1840 worked on…
We laughed from beginning to end reading the novel of our Mayo Clinic colleague Michael Joyner MD, Michelle the Archangel, a story of the 2020, 2024, and 2028 US presidential…
Researchers met at Naturalis, the Natural History Museum of Leiden, Netherlands, on 20-21 April 2006 to form plans for barcoding Palearctic birds. The meeting was convened by Per Ericson, ABBI…
The Program for the Human Environment goes online, with a simple web page hosted by an SGI Indy (www.rockefeller.edu/phe)….
Our work on Industrial Ecology of Wood Products and Restoring Forests convinced us years ago that wood demand would continue weak for many decades. On 27 December 2005 the Wall…
The loss of Air France Flight 447 on 1 June 2009 near the mid-Atlantic Ridge killed all 228 passengers and crew. Â The flight recorders have not been located, and…