Interactive Fractal Tree of Life Zooms In On Earth’s Entire Evolutionary History
By Rebecca Boyle, popsci.comA new interactive website shows a phylogenetic tree of everything, as zoomable as Google Earth.
From protozoans to people, there is a lot of life on this planet, and it’s all connected to a common ancestor from which everything descends…
Wikimapia – Let’s describe the whole world!.
I found this article fascinating since it demonstrates how large scale observation of thousands of bovines can detect patterns in their behavior, namely that they all face North/South. A pair of German researchers are crediting Google Earth for enabling a new discovery into the hidden powers of cows. The two zoologists used the Google mapping tool to study photos of some 300 herds of cattle around the world. What they found was, in general, cows prefer to face north. Of the 8,510 cows observed on Google, some two thirds had aligned themselves in a direction facing magnetic north when grazing or resting.
NASA – NASA-Funded Carbon Dioxide Map of U.S. Released on Google Earth.
Much as Google has figured out how to harness user-submitted content to improve Google Earth, Wikisky.org turns the collective wiki-eye on the vast reaches of space. Check out the draggable space model with constellations highlighted.
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