by Tanja Haser

September 26-28, the International Public Transport Exposition (EXPO 2005) will take place in Dallas, Texas. EXPO 2005 is the world’s largest public transportation trade show and covers all modes of public transportation. EXPO 2005 will bring together over 800 exhibitors from more than 60 countries and about 20,000 visitors from around the world to see the newest products and services available to the mass transportation industry. The International Public Transportation Exposition takes place every three years in a different city in the U.S..

by Alexander Unkart

www.nsf.gov – where discoveries begin

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently unveiled its new website, which is designed to provide better service to the research and education communities as well as the general public. The NSF is an independent federal agency created to promote progress in the sciences and is one of the main funding sources for research in the U.S.. The NSF slogan, “where discoveries begin,” also perfectly describes the new webpage.

by Tanja Haser

The Second Tree:
Of Clones, Chimeras and Quests for Immortality
by Elaine Dewar

Published by: Random House Canada
Pages: 528
Pub. Date: September 2004
ISBN: 0-679-31207-2
[photo credit: randomhouse.ca]

by Matthew William Lensch

E.O. Wilson, the renowned Harvard entomologist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, noted the following in his book Consilience: "For a relatively brief interval ... researchers are intoxicated with a mix of the newly discovered and the imaginable unknown. For the first time, the really important questions are asked in a form that can be answered ..." Wilson was, in general, describing a period of scientific renaissance. There have been many scattered throughout human history, often catalyzed by a mere handful of amazing, sometimes obscure, observations. The description of general relativity (see link #1) and the demonstration of DNA as the genetic material (see link #2) are but two examples of single research publications, focal points of science, that opened the door for a deluge of subsequent inquiry.