Review affirms distinguished FSU professor’s research
“[Florida State University professor Greg] Erickson, a biologist who is one of the nation’s leading paleontologists, had his research challenged last December in a front-page story in the New York Times. The article featured claims by Nathan Myhrvold, an eccentric multimillionaire and former chief technology officer at Microsoft, and his recently published paper disputing research work done by an international group that Erickson led.”
Old Time Portraits of Parasites
“Local parasitologists at the University of South Florida began providing him with specimens. Eventually USF researchers put DeSieno in contact with scientists at the National Institutes of Health. And even Etsy, it turns out, can be a resource for those in search of preserved parasites. From tapeworms to leeches to ticks, soon dead bugs began to arrive on DeSieno’s doorstep.”
Sixth-grader’s science project on venomous lionfish spawns fierce fight over scientific credit
“My lionfish research is going viral … but my name has been intentionally left out of the stories, replaced by the name of the 12-year-old daughter of my former supervisor’s best friend.”
Deadly fungus spreads in Everglades, killing trees
“It’s amazing how much of an impact this one little tiny beetle that’s no bigger than Lincoln’s nose on a penny has done,†Smith said in a recent interview. “And it continues to spread.â€
‘I Origins’: Love and evolution
Mike Cahill, who won a Sundance special jury prize for the 2011 film, this time delivers a dose of science fact with his follow-up, I Origins, opening Friday, an arresting piece that touches on religion, evolution, reincarnation, and the nature of the human soul.
What we talk about when we talk about invasive species is … Florida
“A quarter of the wildlife in South Florida is exotic, more than anywhere else in the U.S., and the region has one of the highest numbers of alien plants in the world.”
