The non-native seven-spotted ladybird beetle, Coccinela septempunctata, captured by Dave Campbell. Are introduced coccinellids the reason for such a decline in our native North American fauna?I just heard an interview with John Losey on NPR about their recently funded Lost Ladybug Project (story here). The idea is to recruit young citizen…
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Here are the books I brought for the summer vacation (they do fit together in my own mind, somehow):
J. Craig Venter, A life decoded: my genome, my life (Viking, 2007) (see earlier post)
David Edwards, Artscience: creativity in the post-Google generation (Harvard University Press, 2008) (see tomorrow’s post)
Eric Margolis and Stephen Laurence…
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The whole station has been needing this day off. Our firstSaturday off in five weeks. You can just see the tired lookon everyone’s face. People are tired of the cold, tired of the wind, tired of being held down by “the Man”. I for onespent my time…
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Here is another installment in my constant musings on the impact of social media on the museum. It’s cold around the country this weekend so enjoy!In the 1990s museum content began to emerge from behind the walls of institutions to appear on distributed websites, and the internet became a common medium…
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As I noted previously, I’m presently on vacation. Unfortunately, I’m in areas with very sporadic web access, so I’m only posting when I can!We spotted this sparrow’s-egg lady’s slipper on the trail to the mineral licks just north of Muncho Lake (in northern British Columbia). I’d been hoping to see this…
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Turkish novellist Orhan Pamuk (Photograph: Eamonn McCabe)
The Nobel Prize laureate Orhan Pamuk has canceled an exhibition of his “Museum of Innocence” at Frankfurt’s Kunsthalle Schirn. As the Frankfurter Rundschau’s Claus-Jürgen Göpfert reports, the exhibition was due to open on October 14, just in time for the city’s renowned international book fair,…
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NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft at Mercury-artist concept.
Photo by: NASA
I’ve been waiting for the “whole story” on Martian ice at the Phoenix lander site to unfold more completely, but the chemical analyses have not yet run their full courses-so I’ve decided to widen the focus on this blog to give a status report…
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Welcome once again to another spirited read-through of the screenplay that is the Cogapp internal blog. Let’s kick off scene one with a mash-up.
These boots were made for walking
Spotted by Ian.
A fabulous Google Maps mash-up (what, another one?) which lets you plan and calculate a route on foot. Simple, useful and…
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