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What is EOL? Welcome
to the first release of the Encyclopedia of Life portal. This is the
very beginning of our exciting journey to document all species of life
on Earth. |Top|
http://www.eol.org/
The official US time (EST). |Top|
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Discover magazine -
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A list of mathematical mistakes made
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http://www.mathmistakes.com/
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Academic Careers
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Like the traditional
children's game, rock-paper-scissors, evolutionary
biologists have learned why nature allows three genetic
strategies to continue: each sexual strategy has
advantages over one competitor and a vulnerability to
another, so that all strategies have a reasonable chance
of prevailing. |Top|
http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/00/12.14.00/mating_strategies.html
We drink it, we generate
electricity with it, we soak our crops with it. And
we're stretching our supplies to the breaking point. Will
we have enough clean water to satisfy all the world's
needs? |Top|
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?article...atID=2
Plants Attract Enemy's
Enemies To Survive. |Top|
http://scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?article...atID=1
GMO, Genetically
Modified Organisms: By far the most common genetically modified (GM)
organisms are crop plants. But the technology has now been applied to
almost all forms of life, from pets that glow under
UV light to
bacteria which form HIV-blocking "living
condoms" and from pigs bearing
spinach genes to
goats that produce
spider silk. |Top|
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/gm-food
Weight Loss Myths. |Top|
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