Exciting new and improved feature on this blog!! Finally, a way to kill more time for you.
An Interview With E.O. Wilson, the Father of the Encyclopedia of Life. From the NYTimes. (Link thanks to Suhit.)
DR. E.O. WILSON: I’ve been in systematics and the mapping of biological diversity all my life. And a little more than ten years ago, I thought the time had come to undertake a complete mapping of the world’s fauna and flora.
Because remarkably–and this is little known even in the scientific community–we’ve only begun to …