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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

• Michael Pollan: The omnivore's next dilemma

  What if human consciousness isn't the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn's clever strategy game, the ultimate prize of which is world domination? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see things from a plant's-eye view -- Read More...
  Posted Sunday, February 10, 2008 4:55 AM by Veritas / 0 Comments

  Tags: animals, plants, species, biochemistry, TEDtalks, culture, darwin, pollan

• BBC Planet Earth: Living Together

  This is a time when our planet is under assault like never before, and we are only beginning to realise how severe the consequences may be for the quality of our own lives and for the quality of our children's lives. And, for me, the only good news in Read More...
  Posted Monday, September 10, 2007 2:25 AM by Veritas / 0 Comments

  Tags: environment, Nature, BBC, earth, species, planet, sustainable development, future, wildlife

• 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