From the Deep Sea
A football octopod and a piglet squid are just a few of the bizarre deep-sea creatures uncovered during the ten-year Census of Marine Life, which ends in 2010. Video Courtesy: Census of Marine Life

The Whirlpool of Life
A new blog is online, dealing with a holistic approach toward attaining a sustainable earth:We must educate our children differently, fostering bonds with nature and with place, as well as a desire to live in harmony with those places. Far from passing responsibility on to future generations, however, the present generation must demonstrate the courage, wisdom, and foresight to cultivate a new,

David Quammen speaks on Darwin and the Origins of the Origin
An incredibly powerful idea...

Evolution of Evolution from the National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation has a new interactive web page about the evolution of evolution. From the press release: Going wide and deep, Evolution of Evolution: 150 Years of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" provides a uniquely sweeping, at-a-glance explanation of how "Origin" cut an intellectual swath through anthropology, biology, the geosciences, polar sciences and even astronomy, and

On the Origin of Species -- An Early Commentary by Wallace
An early reaction to the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which was published 150 years ago today. Below is a selection from a letter by Alfred Wallace to his brother-in-law, Thomas Sims. The letter was written while Wallace was still in Indonesia. He had received a copy of the book in February, 1860 -- a copy which had been sent by Charles Darwin -- the "...Newton of