You can achieve amazing progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal. — Bill Gates The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation just released its annual letter, providing an update on its progress toward creating a better world in which “every person deserves the chance to […]
I can try to explain it to you, but unless you see it for yourself, you really can’t grasp the situation. They’re going through one of the worst droughts ever, it’s barely rained in three years. There is no water to grow vegetation, no water to drink. Everything is like desert. For people in the […]
Coffee is migrating. As it’s getting hotter at lower altitudes, the lower plants are dying off, so it marches the coffee forest up the slopes. — Dean Cycon, owner of Dean’s Beans Coffee Co. Coffee, java, morning Joe, black wine, jolt juice, espresso, cappuccino … Whatever the name, coffee is synonymous with the American dream. […]
Everyone is buying it!! The new textbook in the Christmas stocking of Dean Jeff Braden, NSCU, and his wife Jill! Find out more and order your copy of “Methods in Forest Canopy Research”!
Dr. Lowman’s latest Nature’s Secrets column in newsobserver.com: The new Nature Research Center in downtown Raleigh is a world-first in many ways – cutting-edge scientists working in glass labs where the public can see their activities, unprecedented global outreach of science discoveries through the multi-media SECU Daily Planet theater, myriad citizen science participatory programs for […]
From the Spring 2012 issue of NC State Alumni Magazine: Meg Lowman plans to take thousands of schoolchildren into the Amazon to study the rain forest. She wants to take them to Ethiopia, where she works to preserve what remains of the rain forest there. She also wants them to work side-by-side with other scientists […]
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless, while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity. — E.O. Wilson, biologist, Harvard University The world-acclaimed biologist Edward O. Wilson is writing a book for young people called “Letters to a Young Scientist,” scheduled for publication in early 2013. […]
Most children have a bug period. — E.O. Wilson, distinguished insect scientist from Harvard University The 2012 International Congress of Entomology was held in Daegu, South Korea. Affectionately nicknamed by some of us attendees as the “Big Bug Swarm,” this meeting brought together insect experts from around the world to discuss important scientific issues pertaining […]
Researchers from North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences have discovered which bacteria species are most commonly found in our bellybuttons, but have still not discovered what governs which species will be found on which people. These are the first published findings of the Belly Button Biodiversity project led by […]
There is no such thing as waste, only wasted resources. — Chris Peot, Civil Engineer for DC Water, which treats waste water for Washington, D.C. From toilets to plastics to sludge to food scraps, America is urgently seeking new technologies to deal with waste disposal. The United States currently produces 12 billion tons of waste […]
