Friday, May 25, 2007

The Book of Infinity

The internet manifests the range of human frailty and nobility — take your pick. Here is a noble venture. The Encyclopedia of Life aims to say something about every organism on the planet. Every beast and plant and squiggly thing, all to be described — the mystery of creation noted on the net; A Wikipedia of sorts, but more scrupulously compiled by experts. (I still love Wikipedia though.)

Santayana said that we are in a race between education and catastrophe.

posted by Ira Altschiller on Friday, May 25, 2007 @ 07:02 PM