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• The Day the Earth Nearly Died

  The world today teems with life. Where ever you look something is alive. Then imagine 95 percent of it dying in the blink of a geological eye. It's not a fantasy, it did happen, two hundred and fifty million years ago. It was the day the Earth nearly Read More...
  Posted Saturday, March 29, 2008 6:00 AM by Veritas / 0 Comments

  Tags: biodiversity, life, earth, species, extinction, geology

• International Barcode of Life

  Jonathan Rosenberg is pleased to host a tech talk featuring Drs. Paul Hebert and Dan Janzen, who will discuss their transformative (and very Googley) International Barcode of Life project. iBOL's goal is to capture, using a handheld device, the unique Read More...
  Posted Saturday, March 01, 2008 12:13 PM by Veritas / 0 Comments

  Tags: biology, gene, DNA, biodiversity, species, barcode of life

• BBC Planet Earth : Saving Species

  What a world we live in. And what an experience it must have been to film it. So why have the production team come away with mixed emotions? Filming Planet Earth has been a wonderful experience because we've been able to visit an extraordinary range of Read More...
  Posted Wednesday, August 29, 2007 3:02 PM by Veritas / 0 Comments

  Tags: environment, Nature, BBC, biodiversity, earth, species, ecosystem

• Encyclopedia of Life Promo

  The Encyclopedia of Life will serve as an online reference source and database for every one of the 1.8 million species that are named and known on this planet, as well as all those later discovered and described. Encyclopedia of Life will be used as Read More...
  Posted Saturday, August 11, 2007 4:35 AM by Veritas / 0 Comments

  Tags: biodiversity, Wilson, Encyclopedia, biosphere, life, EOL

• E.O. Wilson's Encyclopedia of Life

  As E.O. Wilson accepts his 2007 TED Prize, he makes a plea on behalf of his constituents, the insects and small creatures, to learn more about our biosphere. We know so little about nature, he says, that we're still discovering tiny organisms indispensable Read More...
  Posted Saturday, August 11, 2007 4:07 AM by Veritas / 0 Comments

  Tags: biodiversity, Wilson, Encyclopedia, insects, biosphere, TED

• Craig Venter: A voyage of DNA, genes and the sea

  Genomics pioneer Craig Venter takes a break from his epic round-the-world expedition to talk about the millions of genes his team has discovered so far, in their quest to map the ocean's hidden biodiversity. (Quite a task, when you consider that there Read More...
  Posted Sunday, July 29, 2007 8:31 AM by Veritas / 0 Comments

  Tags: Genomics, TED, environment, genes, sargasso, Sorcerer II, Venter, microbes, biodiversity