“The practice of eating insects goes back thousands of years and has been documented in nearly every part of the world. In modern times, however, consumption of insects has declined in many societies and is sometimes ridiculed as old-fashioned and unhealthy. Yet, it would be prudent to carefully consider the value of customary knowledge before discarding it too readily. Scientific analysis confirms, for example, the exceptional...
Read MoreThe following article, with the title above, is by Jennifer Zaino and was posted on semanticweb.com on February 2, 2012 under the heading of “Big Data, Government, Ontology/Ontologies, Scientific and Research Applications”: How do you define a forest? How about deforestation? It sounds like it would be fairly easy to get agreement on those terms. But beyond the basics – that a definition for the first would reflect...
Read MoreThe Bren School of Environmental Science and Management just announced that it will host the SolarWorld Gran Turismo (GT), a solar-powered vehicle that is seeking to become the first to circumnavigate the globe, on Friday, Feb. 3, from 4:00 – 5:00 pm between Bren Hall and MSI. “The SolarWorld GT began the U.S. leg of its “World Wide Solar Ride” in Half Moon Bay, Calif. (It has already crossed Australia and New...
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