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Internet Catalog of All Earth's Species - Voa Story

assembling an Internet catalog of every living thing on Earth. The organizers say the new website will become the single location where researchers can go to study the nearly 2 million known plant and animal species. This so-called Encyclopedia of Life is expected to be a major help to scientists in developing countries. The project is a collaboration of six scientific organizations, including the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, Harvard University near Boston, and Chicago's Field ...

Author: MyEarbot; Tags: internet encyclopedia of life science www.eol.org

The Queue: Make a great password

'Star Wars' anti-cell phone PSA, building better passwords, the Encyclopedia of Life, Windows Live betas galore and a 'Warcraft' Visa. HOPE YOU ARE HAVING AN EXCELLENT DAY - I'MRICH DEMURO WITH CNET TV IN NEW YORK CITY AND THIS IS THE QUEUE - NOW WITH LONGER BATTERY LIFE AND FASTER WIRELESS CONNECTIONS! LET'S GET YOU STARTED WITH YOUR MUST SEE MOMENT. FEAR WILL KEEP THE LOCAL SYSTEMS IN LINE...RING..RING...HELLO? A STAR WARS PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT SHOWING THE DANGERS OF USING YOUR ...

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The Encyclopedia of Life

"Imagine an electronic page for each species of organism on Earth, available everywhere by single access on command." - Edward O. Wilson

Author: pleary96; Tags: Encyclopedia Biology Life Science Taxonomic Informatics Bioinformatics Wilson Taxonomy Wikipedia Web 2.0 EOL

E.O. Wilson: TED Prize wish: Help build the Encyclopedia of Life

www.ted.com As EO Wilson accepts his 2007 TED Prize, he makes a plea on behalf of all creatures that we learn more about our biosphere -- and build a networked encyclopedia of all the world's knowledge about life.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al ...

Author: TEDtalksDirector; Tags: E.O. Wilson talks TEDPrize biology ecology life ted tedtalks biosphere

EO Wilson and the Jackson Bio Blitx, 2007

Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival and 1% for the Tetons invited EO Wilson to join our BioBlitz in 2007. Thanks to PlumTV for the video coverage! ... "Edward Wilson" biology species "encyclopedia of life" Jackson "1% for the Tetons" bioblitz

Author: JHWFF; Tags: Edward Wilson biology species encyclopedia of life Jackson 1% for the Tetons bioblitz

Cosmos - 11: The Persistence of Memory 3/6

to make an amoeba... ...a creature like a small city wandering through a drop of water. And what about a whale or a human being? Well, the answer seems to be... ...that there's 5 billion bits. Five billion bits of information in our encyclopedia of life... ...in the nucleus of every one of our cells. So if written out in, say, ordinary English... ...those instructions, that information... ...would fill 1000 volumes. Think of it. In every one of the 100 trillion cells in your body... ... ...

Author: SpiralOut11235; Tags: Carl sagan cosmos brain psychology memory intelligence science cognition

Socrates - Encyclopedia channel

Ancient Greek philosopher Socrates was born in Athens in the year 469 BC, into the family of the sculptor Sophroniscus and Phaenarete. Socrates became the new philosophy founder and the teacher of the many of great philosophers. There is a sample of our production worldwide distributed.Having an exchange stock we are looking for archive and video materials (tv quality) for our use in our own historical video-project about prominent people of the past and famous canvases. (For more ...

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