Deep-Sea News (Free subscription) | 18/04/2008
Guess who is the Encyclopedia of Life's biodiversity of the week ?? The cuttlefish!! Diver: "awww wookit da purdy wittle squidy!" Cuttlefish: "Who you calling a squid punk? Why you backing off? I thought you might want to "cuttle" a bit... thats what I thought..." Hat tip to Michael Barton, FCD . Read the comments on this post...
TED Blog (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
The beautiful film that helped launch the Encyclopedia of Life has been nominated for a 2008 Webby Award. Created by Avenue A | Razorfish, the film is just one outcome of E.O. Wilson's 2007 TED Prize wish: to "help create...
The Letter (Free subscription) | 27/03/2008
Encyclopedia of Life portal aims to eventually document all species of life on Earth.
Antonio Gould's Blog (Free subscription) | 24/03/2008
This is one of the most fascinating posts I’ve read this year so far. It's the story behind The Encyclopedia of Life. It has it all: An ambitious idea way ahead of its time; an eight year story from idea through to conception; a fascinating mix of world-wide collaboration, physical devices (a handheld species identifier if [...]
Corpus Callosum (Free subscription) | 17/03/2008
There is a new website, Encyclopedia of Life . It is an online resource that aims "to document all species of life on Earth." One featured species is Pissodes strobi (Peck), the White pine weevil. The site currently contains: About 25 exemplar species pages . These pages show the kind of rich environment, with extensive information, to which all the species pages will eventually grow. These pages have...
Law Librarian Blog (Free subscription) | 15/03/2008
From the site: "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. Comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growing, and personalized, the Encyclopedia of Life...
BizMediaScience (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
One of the most fascinating websites I've discovered as of late is The Encyclopedia of Life . The Encyclopedia of Life is the brainchild of Paddy Patterson at Woods Hole, MA. The object is simple; bring the diversity of life on the planet to everyone. Do I need to explain what a gold mine this is to a research fanatic? One of the regions I explore in my free time (LOL!) is the limitations to human...
Contradiction (Free subscription) | 03/03/2008
I love information. So how’s this? The Encyclopedia of life. Every species in the world, to be eventually catalogued and described in a glossy free online encyclopedia, funded to the tune of millions. Nature reviews the resource, and are pretty impressed. (updated with an exemplar species, Sepia apama Gray 1849.) Andrew Bolt has savaged me for attributing comments from [...]
tahrcountry (Free subscription) | 02/03/2008
The path-breaking project “ Encyclopedia of Life ” has just added the first 30,000 species pages (1/60th of the total recorded species), including 25 pages that are examples of what the site will include in the future. The project aims at gathering accurate and detailed information on the earth's known 1.8 million species and each will have its own web page. Macarthur Foundation provided the grant...
Geek News Central (Free subscription) | 01/03/2008
A group of eminent natural sciantists from some of the worlds best know instituations (like Harvard, the Smithsonian and the Natural History Museum) have gotten together to launch an ambitious project to build a catalog of the 1.8 Million known...
[Geeks are Sexy] technology news (Free subscription) | 29/02/2008
The Encyclopedia of life (EOL) is a new project that went online just a few days ago. Its goal is to create a free online database for every one of Earth’s 1.8 million known species. The site currently features 30,000 entries, but as time passes, the rest of our planet living organisms should appear. On its [...]
TED Blog (Free subscription) | 29/02/2008
E.O. Wilson made this TED Prize wish in 2007: Help me build the key tool that we need to inspire preservation of Earth's biodiversity: the Encyclopedia of Life. Today, the Encyclopedia of Life website has launched, with the first 30,000...
http://kungfurodeo.com/feed/ (Free subscription) | 29/02/2008
A single work encompassing every living species on earth (mammals, reptiles, fungus, bacteria, etc) has been attempted, but never accomplished. That may change with the advent of the heavily funded Encyclopedia of Life, which is committed to cataloging and describing all of our planet's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
CCUCEO (Free subscription) | 28/02/2008
[Scientists] are building a Web site called the Encyclopedia of Life (www.eol.org). On Thursday its authors, an international team of scientists, will introduce the first 30,000 pages, and within a decade, they predict, they will have the other 1.77 million....
Rage on Omnipotent (Free subscription) | 28/02/2008
Nice scientific collection of everything we know about living things (or at least it will be). Try the polar bear pictures.
