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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…
…Library), Linnaeus listed 564 species collected from all over the world. In 1935, Ernst Mayr estimated 8,500 world birds, and counted more precisely in 1946, arriving at a total of…
…Larissa was weeping. She was already plump, homely, and had never overcome her fear of warm water. She would never get a husband as smart as Bialystock. “I’ll go live in…
COUNCIL FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (CAST) NEWS RELEASE New Study By Leading Agricultural Group Proposes That a More Crowded Planet May Be Simultaneously Better Fed and Greener AMES, IA…
We have updated and reorganized our webpages on DNA, Taxonomy, and the Barcode of Life (https://phe.rockefeller.edu/BarcodeConference/) to keep pace with this rapidly progressing field. Among other exciting developments, the Smithsonian…
A slightly revised version of Jesse’s May 2009 Dalhousie University Commencement Address, Son et lumiere, is published on 23 November 2009 by the monthly science magazine, SEED, as Broadening the…
…Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 1991. Grübler, A., The Rise and Fall of Infrastructures, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 1990. Oliver, R. M., Saturation Models: A Brief Survey and Critique, Journal of…
…and continuing interest The New York Times August 21, 2008, page 1 Time Magazine Invited presentation at AAAS annual meeting, San Diego, CA, Feb 2010 download PPTX Chosun Ilbo (Korean…