Being a serious bioscience person, this anniversary is really neat for me. July 1, 2008 was the 150 year anniversary since the first public presentation on Natural Selection, the mechanism by which evolution takes place, by Darwin.
This posting has a nice overview on the presentation, and events leading up to it.
An extremely rare turtle was recently found in Viet Nam, it may be the last wild specimen on Earth.
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo today announced the discovery of a critically endangered turtle in northern Vietnam that previously was thought to be extinct in the wild. Experts from the Zoo’s Asian Turtle Program confirmed that they have identified [...]
This article from the NYT highlights something we all knew, but now has one more study to back it up - vaccines save lives, LOTS of lives. Most diseases have seen a drop in deaths and serious illness of over 90%! That is amazing, and has saved countless children from horrible illness, death and life-long [...]
Lots of destruction.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071116/ap_on_re_as/bangladesh_cyclone
There is a giant cyclone (hurricane) beginning to slam Bangladesh and India. Bangladesh is country where much of the population lives along the coast. It also is a country with much of its land below sea level. In addition, much of the population is mired in poverty. And, unfortunately, they sit in an area of [...]