6 May 04
Tangled Banks
There’s a new collaborative blogging exercise in town, similar in concept to the weekly Carnival of the Vanities. This is The Tangled Bank, and it is a compendium of weblog entries on biology, medicine, or natural history. (The name “Tangled Bank” comes from a famous metaphor by Darwin.) The second Tangled Bank collection just came out; I submitted my entry about the barred owl to it. From this collection I learned that this will be a 17-year cicada year for folks in the Eastern U.S!
- I found the Invasive species weblog really interesting. I watched a program last night about tomato growers wanting to import the European bumble bee into Australia in order to improve pollination and crop yields. The concern is that it could compete with native nectar and pollen gatherers. You’d think we would have learned our lesson by now with regard to imported flora and fauna…but no!— Jenny 7. May 2004, 01:04 Link
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