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Is Your Worldview Naturalistic?
Think about your own worldview to decide if it is free of supernatural or mystical deities, forces, and entities. If you decide that you fit the description above, then you are, by definition, a bright!
On this website, you can simply say so and, by doing so, join with other brights from all over the world in an extraordinary effort to change the thinking of society—the Brights movement.
Homecoming of Odysseus May Have Been in Eclipse - NYTimes.com
Plutarch thought a crucial passage in the 20th book of the “Odyssey” to be a poetic description of a total solar eclipse at the time of Odysseus’ return. A century ago, astronomers calculated that such an eclipse occurred over the Greek islands on April 16, 1178 B.C., the only one in the region around the estimated date of the sack of Troy. But nearly all classics scholars are highly skeptical of any connection.
Ecology and Society:
Ecology and Society is an electronic, peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal devoted to the rapid dissemination of current research. Manuscript submission, peer review, and publication are all handled on the Internet. Software developed for the journal automates all clerical steps during peer review, facilitates a double-blind peer review process, and allows authors and editors to follow the progress of peer review on the Internet. As articles are accepted, they are published in an "Issue in Progress." At six month intervals the Issue-in-Progress is declared a New Issue, and subscribers receive the Table of Contents of the issue via email. Our turn-around time (submission to publication) averages around 250 days.
We encourage publication of special features. Special features are comprised of a set of manuscripts that address a single theme, and include an introductory and summary manuscript. The individual contributions are published in regular issues, and the special feature manuscripts are linked through a table of contents and announced on the journal's main page.
The journal seeks papers that are novel, integrative and written in a way that is accessible to a wide audience that includes an array of disciplines from the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities concerned with the relationship between society and the life-supporting ecosystems on which human wellbeing ultimately depends.
Content of the journal ranges from the applied to the theoretical. In general, papers should cover topics relating to the ecological, political, and social foundations for sustainable social-ecological systems. Specifically, the journal publishes articles that present research findings on the following issues: (a) the management, stewardship and sustainable use of ecological systems, resources and biological diversity at all levels, (b) the role natural systems play in social and political systems and conversely, the effect of social, economic and political institutions on ecological systems and services, and
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At Botanical Garden: What Darwin Saw Out Back - New York Times
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N 1860, while studying primroses in the garden of Down House, his home in Kent, England, Charles Darwin noticed something odd about their blooms.
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While all the flowers had both male and female parts — anthers and pistils — in some the anthers were prominent and in others the pistils were longer. So he experimented in his home laboratory and greenhouses, cross-pollinating some plants with their anatomical opposites. The results were striking.
“He determined that if they cross-pollinate, they produce more seed and more vigorous seedlings,” said Margaret Falk, a horticulturalist and associate vice president at the New York Botanical Garden. The variation is evolution’s way of increasing cross-pollination, she said.
Now the Botanical Garden is replicating this work, and more of Darwin’s Down House experiments, in a stunning, multipart exhibition called “Darwin’s Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure.”
CCMA: Benthic Habitats of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Benthic Habitats of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Providing a benthic habitat classification manual, a benthic habitat map for the nearshore waters of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and supplemental geospatial data.
Puerto Rico Sea Grant College Program - Home
Welcome to the University of Puerto Rico Sea Grant College Program. We are an educational program devoted to the conservation and sustainable use of coastal and marine resources in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Caribbean region. Our mission is two-fold: to conduct excellent scientific research in the areas of water quality, fisheries and mariculture, seafood safety, marine recreation and coastal tourism, coastal hazards and coastal communities economic development; and to apply our scientific knowledge to solve a variety of problems our communities of users face every day. For over two decades the University of Puerto Rico Sea Grant College Program has been working to promote sustainable development and the wise use of marine resources in Latin America and the Caribbean region.
The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online
- La travesía del Beagle produjo una de las obras más importantes de la humanidad y un plenteamiento que habría de transformar la manera en la que veíamos y explicábamos las especies, los organismos, los ecosistemas y las sociedades. Este es un proyecto maravilloso. Carlos darwin al alcance de todos. Su ciencia es exquisita y sus conjeturas lo mejor. Su percepción fue capaz de precisar una gran cantidad de procesos de transformación de las especies. - manolitovaldes on 2008-04-17
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Darwin's private papers online - the largest publication of Darwin's papers in history. Read about it here. Browse the papers here.
This site contains Darwin's complete publications, thousands of handwritten manuscripts and the largest Darwin bibliography and manuscript catalogue ever published;
also hundreds of supplementary works: biographies, obituaries, reviews, reference works and more. -
Almost all is online only here: such as 1st editions of Voyage of the Beagle, Zoology, Descent of Man, all editions of Origin of Species (1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th & 6th); important manuscripts: Beagle Diary & field notebooks, Journal, transmutation notebooks and Autobiography.
Forthcoming: more editions, translations, introductions & manuscripts.
See also: Darwin Correspondence Project.
Bush Sets Greenhouse Gas Emissions Goal - New York Times
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President Bush called Wednesday for the United States to stop the growth of greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 and challenged other countries, including major polluters like China and India, to abandon trade barriers on energy-related technology and commit to goals of their own.
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The White House cast Mr. Bush’s announcement in the Rose Garden as an ambitious effort by a president determined to lead on the climate change issue, even with just nine months left in office.
But critics — including environmentalists, scientists and lawmakers — said the effort was too little, too late. They accused Mr. Bush of trying to derail legislation that would curb emissions even further. And because he did not offer any specifics for how to reach his 2025 goal, they dismissed the speech as irrelevant.
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Edward N. Lorenz, a Meteorologist and a Father of Chaos Theory, Dies at 90 - New York Times
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Edward N. Lorenz, a meteorologist who tried to predict the weather with computers but instead gave rise to the modern field of chaos theory, died Wednesday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 90.
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In discovering “deterministic chaos,” Dr. Lorenz established a principle that “profoundly influenced a wide range of basic sciences and brought about one of the most dramatic changes in mankind’s view of nature since Sir Isaac Newton,” said a committee that awarded him the 1991 Kyoto Prize for basic sciences.
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Cholera Epidemic in New York City in 1832 - New York Times
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On a Sunday in July 1832, a fearful and somber crowd of New Yorkers gathered in City Hall Park for more bad news. The epidemic of cholera, cause unknown and prognosis dire, had reached its peak.
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The epidemic left 3,515 dead out of a population of 250,000. (The equivalent death toll in today’s city of eight million would exceed 100,000.) The dreadful time is recalled in art, maps, death tallies and other artifacts in an exhibition, “Plague in Gotham! Cholera in Nineteenth-Century New York,” at the New-York Historical Society. The show will run through June 28.
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Idea Lab - Memory - New York Times
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All this becomes even more poignant when you compare our memories to those of the average laptop. Whereas it takes the average human child weeks or even months or years to memorize something as simple as a multiplication table, any modern computer can memorize any table in an instant — and never forget it. Why can’t we do the same?
Much of the difference lies in the basic organization of memory. Computers
organize everything they store according to physical or logical locations,
with each bit stored in a specific place according to some sort of master map,
but we have no idea where anything in our brains is stored. We retrieve
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In the best-case situation, this process works well: the particular memory we need just “pops” into our minds, automatically and effortlessly. The catch, however, is that our memories can easily get confused, especially when a given set of cues points to more than one memory. What we remember at any given moment depends heavily on the accidents of which bits of mental flotsam and jetsam happen to be active at that instant. Our mood, our environment, even our posture can all influence our delicate memories. To take but one example, studies suggest that if you learn a word while you happen to be slouching, you’ll be better able to remember that word at a later time if you are slouching than if you happen to be standing upright.
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™ El Nuevo Día - La invasión boricua en la NASA
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La última frontera, el espacio sideral, es conquistada en parte por la labor de un destacado grupo de cerca de 200 puertorriqueños, principalmente ingenieros educados en la Isla, que laboran en la Administración de Aeronáutica y el Espacio de Estados Unidos (NASA).
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Se estima que cerca de 75% de esos 181 boricuas son ingenieros, principalmente egresados de la Universidad de Puerto Rico en Mayagüez
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Amazon’s ‘Forest Peoples’ Seek a Role in Striking Global Climate Agreements - New York Times
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On Friday, representatives from the 11 Latin American countries signed a declaration establishing the International Alliance of Forest Peoples and vowed to continue to push for a place at the table of climate change talks.
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Large-scale clearing of the Amazon forest — for wood, cattle-grazing and agricultural products like soybeans — is threatening the native people’s traditional way of life. “The climate changes are a reality,” said Manoel Cunha, chairman of Brazil’s National Council of Rubber Tappers. “We have rivers that are unnavigable” and trees that no longer bear fruit, he added.
A Shift in the Debate Over Global Warming - New York Times
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The economist Jeffrey D. Sachs, head of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, stated the case bluntly in a recent article in Scientific American: “Even with a cutback in wasteful energy spending, our current technologies cannot support both a decline in carbon dioxide emissions and an expanding global economy. If we try to restrain emissions without a fundamentally new set of technologies, we will end up stifling economic growth, including the development prospects for billions of people.”
What is needed, Mr. Sachs and others say, is the development of radically advanced low-carbon technologies, which they say will only come about with greatly increased spending by determined governments on what has so far been an anemic commitment to research and development. A Manhattan-like Project, so to speak.
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“There is no question about whether technological innovation is necessary — it is,” said the authors, Roger A. Pielke Jr., a political scientist at the University of Colorado; Tom Wigley, a climatologist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research; and Christopher Green, an economist at McGill University. “The question is, to what degree should policy focus directly on motivating such innovation?”
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Let Computers Compute. It’s the Age of the Right Brain. - New York Times
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“Our educational system, as well as science in general, tends to neglect the nonverbal form of intellect. What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.”
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THE primary moral to the story, Mr. Pink says, is this: There’s power in making career choices for fundamental reasons, such as doing something you love, instead of instrumental reasons, like hoping a job will be a steppingstone to something else.
Bush to Science: "Let's be friends" -- Grimm 2008 (401): 3 -- ScienceNOW
¿Por qué no podemos ser amigos? Es la la pregunta que le lanzó el presidente Bush a la comunidad científica. Una pregunta esgrimida un poco tarde. Los comentarios me invitan a usar palabras que tengo vedadas en este blog. Las dejo a su imaginación. Ya lo dijo el grupo War... “sometimes I do not speak right!”. También dijeron… “I kind of like to be your president, so I can show you how your money is spent!” Gente con vision.
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Struggling to put his presidency in a favorable historical light, U.S. President George W. Bush has announced a dramatic shift in his attitude toward science. "Critics have accused my Administration of ignoring scientific advice and even of twisting science to suit its own political agenda," Bush said at a speech today at the National Center for Biochemical Medicine here. "Today, I say to those in the scientific community: 'Let's be friends.' "
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In a final concession, Bush promised to be a better steward of the planet. "I haven't always been clear about the threat global warming poses," he said. "In retrospect, having oil industry lobbyists edit our climate reports was probably a bad idea." He also admitted that initiatives such as "Healthy Forests" and "Clear Skies" had led to excess logging and air pollution, respectively. To make amends, he has appointed former rival and Nobel laureate Al Gore to head his new conservation initiative, which calls for mandatory cuts on greenhouse gas emissions and rigorous protection for species classified as threatened or endangered. "We're calling it 'Pristine Planet,' " said Bush. "And this time we mean it."
NASA - Old Solar Cycle Returns
Todavía el Ciclo 23 está disparado. A cuidarse, porque lo que viene es mazacote. Como saben, alguna gente piensa que afecta el comportamiento humano. Pendiente a vecinos, amigos, conyuges y otros personajes de nuestra vida cotidiana.
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Solar Cycle 23, how can we miss you if
you won't go away?
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three months after forecasters announced the beginning of
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going on? Hathaway explains: "We have two solar cycles
in progress at the same time. Solar Cycle 24 has begun (the
first new-cycle spot appeared in January 2008), but Solar
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An Appraisal of Arthur C. Clarke - Books - New York Times
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Stanley Kubrick’s film of Mr. Clarke’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” for example — a project developed with the author — is haunting not for its sci-fi imaginings of artificial intelligence and space-station engineering but for its evocation of humanity’s origins and its vision of a transcendent future embodied in a human fetus poised in space.
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Whatever attitude comes through — and it is almost always fraught with ambiguity — religion suffuses Mr. Clarke’s realm. He demands the canvas of Genesis and upon it he enacts experiments in thought. All science fiction does this to a certain extent, trying to imagine alternative universes in which one factor or another is slightly different. What if carbon were not the fundamental element in life forms? What if a society existed that never experienced nighttime?
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