Save the Bees! - Tell the EPA to Ban Clothianidin

Click here to sign a petition to tell the EPA to ban the pesticide, Clothianidin.


In the next week, the EPA is expected to issue a decision on the pesticide Clothianidin - which scientists believe is a major factor in the alarming decline in U.S honey bee populations, known as Colony Collapse Disorder.

Since 2006, one third of U.S honey bee populations have been dying off. One third. Every year. That's a terrible rate of species destruction on its own, but it's also a serious threat to our food supply. Honey bees play a crucial role by pollinating 71 of the 100 most common crops, which account for 90% of the world's food supply.

Source: http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/bee_decision/

Meeting the Demands of Rapid Digitization - SPNHC 2012

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SPNHC - Annual Meeting - Yale

Today is the first day of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections being held at Yale University.

The opening of the conference was held at the Historic Shubert Theater in downtown New Haven, CT, where Willie Nelson is performing on Monday.

Carl Zimmer, author and Contributing Editor of Discover Magazine and science columnist for the New York Times, gave a very entertaining and enlightening keynote speech in which he tied together zombies, the CDC, Chuck Norris, tape worms and creationism (among many other topics):

From Page to Pixel (or What Chuck Norris and Tapeworms Taught Me About the Future of Journalism and Science

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NPR: Monet's Green Thumb: How Art Grew From A Garden, by Margot Adler

Click here to listen to Margot Adler's NPR story on Monet's Garden at The New York Botanical Garden.

"The gardens and the paintings were so inextricably wound in Monet's life and his work and his mind," Paul Hayes Tucker, a Monet expert and the exhibition's curator, says "[that] the gardens themselves become like a living work of art — like a still life."