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...effect of making me worry about all the other things of which I may be unaware. When a cursory search of Facebook revealed over 500 separate awareness events in the coming week alone, I was reduced to a quivering wreck. I had no idea about Canadian Landmines or International Plankton. Ignorance had been bliss. Awareness was torment. I nearly sent Undergraduate Council President Matt L. Sundquist ’09 a detailed letter about my mental state. Until last week, I hadn’t been aware I could do that. I guess we are making progress...
Keller believes she has evidence that they were, thanks to microscopic fossils of foraminifera, a type of plankton that largely died with the dinosaurs. Precisely dating the dinosaurs' demise is tough because most bones disintegrate before they can be fossilized. Plankton, by contrast, are preserved in ocean sediments. Keller studied sediments near the impact site in Mexico, where a massive bloom of new plankton species should have emerged within a handful of millenniums after the impact, taking advantage of the evolutionary room the extinctions created in the ocean. She found her bloom, all right, but 300,000 years later than...
...This is organic gardening, not rocket science.' RUSS GEORGE, chief executive of Planktos, a California "ecorestoration" company that plans to plant large fields of carbon dioxide-eating plankton at sea-the first this month near the Galápagos Islands and in the South Pacific-to mitigate global warming. Some scientists question the scheme's efficacy, and believe it may even increase greenhouse gases through the organisms' potential release of methane and nitrous oxide...
...evolution has become an article of faith among scientists. He cites biologist J.B.S. Haldane who, when asked what would disprove evolution, replied, fossil rabbits in the Precambrian era, a period more than 540 million years ago, when life on Earth seems to have consisted largely of bacteria, algae and plankton. "Creationists are fond of saying that there are very few fossils in the Precambrian, but why would there be?" asks Dawkins. "However, if there was a single hippo or rabbit in the Precambrian, that would completely blow evolution out of the water. None have ever been found...
...ALAIN BOMBARD, 80, survivalist turned politician, who crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1952 in a 4.2-m inflatable dinghy to prove that long sea voyages had been possible in the past without freshwater supplies; in Toulon, France. Bombard made the journey with a sextant, fishing equipment, books and a plankton filter. He survived on raw fish, seawater, and plankton, which is rich in vitamin C, and drifted into Barbados from the Canary Islands 25 kg lighter after 65 days. He later served as France's State Secretary for the Environment before being elected to the European Parliament...