Day archives: February 19th, 2011

Report: As Tuna Vanish, Sardines Rise

Science: “The last century has not been good for large, tasty fish like tuna and cod. Numbers of these and other top predators have plummeted because of overfishing. At the same time, populations of smaller fish, such as sardines and anchovies, have boomed by 130%, according to a new study of marine ecosystems around the …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

House Passes Luetkemeyer Amendment to Halt Taxpayer Financing of UN Climate Panel

Science Insider: “Last night the U.S. House of Representatives agreed to cut off funding for the rest of 2011 for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “My constituents should not have to continue to foot the bill for an organization to keep producing corrupt findings that can be used as justification to impose a massive …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents

Genomic DNA Sequences from Mastodon and Woolly Mammoth Reveal Deep Speciation of Forest and Savanna Elephants

Rohland N, Reich D, Mallick S, Meyer M, Green RE, et al. (2010) Genomic DNA Sequences from Mastodon and Woolly Mammoth Reveal Deep Speciation of Forest and Savanna Elephants. PLoS Biol 8(12): e1000564. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000564 “To elucidate the history of living and extinct elephantids, we generated 39,763 bp of aligned nuclear DNA sequence across 375 loci …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Comparative Criminal Procedure

Via the terrific law librarians at University of Chicago at the D’Angelo Law Library, Comparative Criminal Procedure: “This research guide prepared for Professors Ginsburg and McAdams’ Comparative Criminal Procedure Seminar (LAWS 41702) lists selected English-language resources on comparative criminal procedure. It focuses on journal articles, book chapters, and treatises covering comparative criminal procedure generally, criminal …

Subjects: Legal Research