Various Topics of Interest

1. National Public Radio Science Friday Links
2. Honeybee populations are being devastated by the arrival of parasitic mites. This could affect our agriculture and growth of wild bee-pollinated plants. Listen to Part 1 of the interview (~5 min). Listen to Part 2 (~8min).
3. Carl Sagan interview on pseudoscience (50 min). You'll need a Real Audio player to hear this interview. Get the player.
4. Scientific Nonsense. The World Wide Web has become your source for all sorts of pseudoscientific nonsense. Listen to the NPR commentary (~ 3 min) Needs Real Audio; get it here.
5. Comparative Ecology: A Computational Perspective. Includes discussions of evolution, and a comparison of biological and market ecosystems.
6. A Molecular View of Microbial Diversity and the Biosphere. Read it.
7. How Habitat Edges Change Species Interactions. Read here.
8. The power of movement in plants (changes in plant distributions over time; needs Adobe Acrobat. Get it here).
9. Factors limiting species distribution are here and here.
10. Distribution of Paridae in East Asia.
11. Distribution of Fishes in the Red River of the North Basin on Multivariate Environmental Gradients (Whew!)
12. eNature.com:Field guides to flowers, insects, shells, etc.
13. Trace the SARS outbreak!!
14. Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases.
15. Planning Against Biological Terrorism
16. Get SimAnt, SimFarm and other games!
17. Listen to John Stewart's take on intelligent design: EVOLUTION - SCHMEVOLUTION in secret readings