Archive for the ‘science!’ Category
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
Tomorrow, Monday, June 22, 2009, 10am – 12:30pm at the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum in Baird Auditorium:
To observe National Pollinator Week, Dr. Michael Ruggiero (senior scientist for the museum's Integrated Taxonomic Information System) hosts a panel of bumblebee experts to discuss the declining numbers of these important pollinators.
I'm looking forward ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
I think Antweb is a brilliant resource.
Every ant tells a story. AntWeb provides tools for exploring the diversity and identification of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
These tools have been developed to encourage the study of ants, to facilitate the use of ants in inventory and monitoring programs, and to provide ant taxonomists ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
The Tree of Life Project is a phenomenal project.
The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists from around the world. On more than 5000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and characteristics.
Each ...
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Sunday, July 15th, 2007
The Economist reports on a creative method for protecting precious crops from fruit flies: "How weaver ants could come to the rescue of African mango farmers."
All you need do is locate a suitable nest and run string from it to the trees you wish to protect. The ants will then ...
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Saturday, July 7th, 2007
Calling the Glacier is an installation by Kalle Laar that uses mobile phone technology to enable you to call and listen to a glacier melting.
Using the phone has become so prevalent in our society that we no longer consciously perceive the cosmos of sounds emanating from our global communications network. ...
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Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
"Mind Control by Parasites"
What?
No.
Ick!
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