Tag Archives: science
Posted on 05-Apr-2008
Last year I had eagerly anticipated the arrival of the Encyclopedia of Life (EoL). Entries on individual species became viewable on 28 February, a few months earlier than the projected mid-2008 deadline. Coolness!
Currently they have twenty-four exemplar species pages, tens of thousands of authenticated (but not detailed) species pages, and ...
Posted on 03-Mar-2008
I know I'll continue my habit of writing lists on bits of paper, but I thought it'd be useful to maintain an online list of the birds I've seen in our neighborhood. I've limited this to visitors to our yards and the nearby park.
"Birders, are ye?" Well, I prefer the ...
Posted on 10-May-2007
The Encyclopedia of Life project was announced (1). Wow, this sounds very exciting!
Timewarp...
When I was a little kid, I used to have a subscription to Safari Animal Wildlife Cards —a mail order service suspiciously similar to those recipe card subscriptions from the 1970s. Nice, easy to read, tabular descriptions, color-coded ...
