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The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is a free, online collaborative encyclopedia intended to document all of the 1.9 million living species known to science. It is compiled from existing databases and from contributions by experts and non-experts throughout the world. It aims to build one "infinitely expandable" page for each species, including video, sound, images, graphics, as well as text. In addition, the Encyclopedia incorporates content from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, which digitizes millions of pages of printed literature from the world's major natural history libraries. The project was initially backed by a US$50 million funding commitment, led by the MacArthur Foundation and the Sloan Foundation, who provided US$20 million and US$5 million, respectively. The additional US$25 million came from five cornerstone institutions—the Field Museum, Harvard University, the Marine Biological Laboratory, the Missouri Botanical Garden, and the Smithsonian Institution. The project was initially led by Jim Edwards and the development team by David Patterson. Today, participating institutions and individual donors continue to support EOL through financial contributions.
Edward Osborne Wilson (born June 10, 1929) is an American biologist, researcher (sociobiology, biodiversity, island biogeography), theorist (consilience, biophilia), naturalist (conservationist) and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he is considered to be the world's leading expert.
Wilson is known for his scientific career, his role as "the father of sociobiology" and "the father of biodiversity", his environmental advocacy, and his secular-humanist and deist ideas pertaining to religious and ethical matters. Among his greatest contributions to ecological theory is the theory of island biogeography, which he developed in collaboration with the mathematical ecologist Robert MacArthur, and which is seen as the foundation of the development of conservation area design, as well as the unified neutral theory of biodiversity of Stephen Hubbell.
Wilson is (2014) the Pellegrino University Research Professor, Emeritus in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, a lecturer at Duke University, and a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is a Humanist Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction (for On Human Nature in 1979, and The Ants in 1991) and a New York Times bestseller for The Social Conquest of Earth,Letters to a Young Scientist, and The Meaning of Human Existence.
Life is a characteristic distinguishing physical entities having biological processes (such as signaling and self-sustaining processes) from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased (death), or because they lack such functions and are classified as inanimate. Various forms of life exist such as plants, animals, fungi, protists, archaea, and bacteria. The criteria can at times be ambiguous and may or may not define viruses, viroids or potential artificial life as living. Biology is the primary science concerned with the study of life, although many other sciences are involved.
Throughout history there have been many theories about life including materialism, hylomorphism and vitalism. Even today it is a challenge for scientists and philosophers to define life. The smallest contiguous unit of life is called an organism. Organisms are composed of one or more cells, undergo metabolism, maintain homeostasis, can grow, respond to stimuli, reproduce (either sexually or asexually) and, through evolution, adapt to their environment in successive generations. A diverse array of living organisms can be found in the biosphere of Earth, and the properties common to these organisms are a carbon- and water-based cellular form with complex organization and heritable genetic information.
An encyclopedia or encyclopaedia (also spelled encyclopædia, see spelling differences) is a type of reference work or compendium holding a comprehensive summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge. Encyclopedias are divided into articles or entries, which are usually accessed alphabetically by article name. Encyclopedia entries are longer and more detailed than those in most dictionaries. Generally speaking, unlike dictionary entries, which focus on linguistic information about words, encyclopedia articles focus on factual information concerning the subject for which the article is named.
Encyclopedias have existed for around 2,000 years; the oldest still in existence, Naturalis Historia, was written starting in ca. AD 77 by Pliny the Elder and was not fully revised at the time of his death in AD 79. The modern encyclopedia evolved out of dictionaries around the 17th century. Historically, some encyclopedias were contained in one volume, whereas others, such as the Encyclopædia Britannica, the Enciclopedia Italiana (62 volumes, 56,000 pages) or the world's largest, Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana (118 volumes, 105,000 pages), became huge multi-volume works. Some modern encyclopedias, such as Wikipedia, are electronic and often freely available.
Information on all the planet's 1.9 million known species in one place. Free to use and share. Come visit at EOL.org
Original from EOL."Comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growing, and personalized, the Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world. Our goal is to create a constantly evolving encyclopedia that lives on the Internet, with contributions from scientists and amateurs alike. To transform the science of biology, and inspire a new generation of scientists, by aggregating all known data about every living species. And ultimately, to increase our collective understanding of life on Earth, and safeguard the richest possible spectrum of biodiversity." Encyclopedia of Life website launch on February 26th, 2008. Join them. The door is open. URL: http://www.eol.org/
"Imagine an electronic page for each species of organism on Earth, available everywhere by single access on command." - Edward O. Wilson
http://www.ted.com As E.O. Wilson accepts his 2007 TED Prize, he makes a plea on behalf of all creatures that we learn more about our biosphere -- and build a networked encyclopedia of all the world's knowledge about life. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
Harvard University, Smithsonian Institution, Field Museum of Natural History - An ambitious collaborative project to build an online reference source and database for every one of the 1.8 million species that are named and known on this planet. It is supported by a network of the world's most authoritative educational and life sciences institutions.
Para vídeo original, acesse: http://www.ted.com/talks/e_o_wilson_on_saving_life_on_earth Ajude no projeto: http://eol.org/
On May 9, 2007, the launch of the Encyclopedia of Life was announced. Spurred by a $10 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and $2.5 million from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the project is an unprecedented global effort to document all 1.8 million named species of animals, plants, and other forms of life on Earth. For the first time in the history of the planet, scientists, students, and citizens will have multimedia access to all known living species, even those that have just been discovered. Learn more at http://www.eol.org/.
Explorations in Science Old and New: A TV Series of 25-minute-episodes prepared and presented by Ismail Serageldin (available in Arabic and English) BIOLOGY What was the story of life on earth? Who created modern biology? What did Mendel and Darwin actually say? Why was the discovery of DNA such a momentous achievement? How do we organize the enormous diversity of life we see everywhere? Can we actually create an encyclopedia covering all life forms on earth? These are some of the questions we cover in our search for a better understanding of biology. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE A single book to cover all that we know about all the life forms on earth! That is the ambition of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) project drawing together many of the most distinguished scientific institutions in the wo...
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is a global project to bring together, on infinitely expandable web pages, information about all of the approximately 1.9 million species of plants, animals and microorganisms on Earth. As a collaborative effort of tens of thousands of people with expertise around the world, the EOL project aims is to make knowledge about all the world's organisms freely available to everyone. The BA is a close partner in the project, working on the internationalization of the system by providing the current version for English, Arabic and Spanish speakers. It is also endeavoring to create EOL in Arabic as a rich biodiversity resource for Arab scientists in the region. The EOL in Arabic will facilitate the development, the dissemination of, and access to science and biodivers...
Bob Corrigan is the director of product management for the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), an ever-expanding, trusted, web-based biodiversity resource launched in 2008 following Professor E.O. Wilson's TED Prize wish in 2007. EOL's vision is to provide global access to knowledge about life on Earth. Bob is a member of the EOL team based at Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.
Information on all the planet's 1.9 million known species in one place. Free to use and share. Come visit at EOL.org
Original from EOL."Comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growing, and personalized, the Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world. Our goal is to create a constantly evolving encyclopedia that lives on the Internet, with contributions from scientists and amateurs alike. To transform the science of biology, and inspire a new generation of scientists, by aggregating all known data about every living species. And ultimately, to increase our collective understanding of life on Earth, and safeguard the richest possible spectrum of biodiversity." Encyclopedia of Life website launch on February 26th, 2008. Join them. The door is open. URL: http://www.eol.org/
"Imagine an electronic page for each species of organism on Earth, available everywhere by single access on command." - Edward O. Wilson
http://www.ted.com As E.O. Wilson accepts his 2007 TED Prize, he makes a plea on behalf of all creatures that we learn more about our biosphere -- and build a networked encyclopedia of all the world's knowledge about life. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
Harvard University, Smithsonian Institution, Field Museum of Natural History - An ambitious collaborative project to build an online reference source and database for every one of the 1.8 million species that are named and known on this planet. It is supported by a network of the world's most authoritative educational and life sciences institutions.
Para vídeo original, acesse: http://www.ted.com/talks/e_o_wilson_on_saving_life_on_earth Ajude no projeto: http://eol.org/
On May 9, 2007, the launch of the Encyclopedia of Life was announced. Spurred by a $10 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and $2.5 million from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the project is an unprecedented global effort to document all 1.8 million named species of animals, plants, and other forms of life on Earth. For the first time in the history of the planet, scientists, students, and citizens will have multimedia access to all known living species, even those that have just been discovered. Learn more at http://www.eol.org/.
Explorations in Science Old and New: A TV Series of 25-minute-episodes prepared and presented by Ismail Serageldin (available in Arabic and English) BIOLOGY What was the story of life on earth? Who created modern biology? What did Mendel and Darwin actually say? Why was the discovery of DNA such a momentous achievement? How do we organize the enormous diversity of life we see everywhere? Can we actually create an encyclopedia covering all life forms on earth? These are some of the questions we cover in our search for a better understanding of biology. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE A single book to cover all that we know about all the life forms on earth! That is the ambition of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) project drawing together many of the most distinguished scientific institutions in the wo...
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is a global project to bring together, on infinitely expandable web pages, information about all of the approximately 1.9 million species of plants, animals and microorganisms on Earth. As a collaborative effort of tens of thousands of people with expertise around the world, the EOL project aims is to make knowledge about all the world's organisms freely available to everyone. The BA is a close partner in the project, working on the internationalization of the system by providing the current version for English, Arabic and Spanish speakers. It is also endeavoring to create EOL in Arabic as a rich biodiversity resource for Arab scientists in the region. The EOL in Arabic will facilitate the development, the dissemination of, and access to science and biodivers...
Bob Corrigan is the director of product management for the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), an ever-expanding, trusted, web-based biodiversity resource launched in 2008 following Professor E.O. Wilson's TED Prize wish in 2007. EOL's vision is to provide global access to knowledge about life on Earth. Bob is a member of the EOL team based at Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.
http://www.ted.com As E.O. Wilson accepts his 2007 TED Prize, he makes a plea on behalf of all creatures that we learn more about our biosphere -- and build a networked encyclopedia of all the world's knowledge about life. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
Para vídeo original, acesse: http://www.ted.com/talks/e_o_wilson_on_saving_life_on_earth Ajude no projeto: http://eol.org/
On May 9, 2007, the launch of the Encyclopedia of Life was announced. Spurred by a $10 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and $2.5 million from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the project is an unprecedented global effort to document all 1.8 million named species of animals, plants, and other forms of life on Earth. For the first time in the history of the planet, scientists, students, and citizens will have multimedia access to all known living species, even those that have just been discovered. Learn more at http://www.eol.org/.
Explorations in Science Old and New: A TV Series of 25-minute-episodes prepared and presented by Ismail Serageldin (available in Arabic and English) BIOLOGY What was the story of life on earth? Who created modern biology? What did Mendel and Darwin actually say? Why was the discovery of DNA such a momentous achievement? How do we organize the enormous diversity of life we see everywhere? Can we actually create an encyclopedia covering all life forms on earth? These are some of the questions we cover in our search for a better understanding of biology. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE A single book to cover all that we know about all the life forms on earth! That is the ambition of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) project drawing together many of the most distinguished scientific institutions in the wo...
Erick Mata demonstrates the use of the Encyclopedia of Life as a one stop website to find information about the natural history, taxonomy, distribution and life history of any given species.
UNESCO-EOLSS is the Largest On-line Encyclopedia - A virtual dynamic library of about 600 Volumes. Peer reviewed body of state-of-the-art archival knowledge edited by hundreds of subject experts with contributions from over 8000 reputed authors from more than 100 countries The EOLSS body of knowledge is an integrated compendium of twenty one encyclopedias. It attempts to forge pathways between disciplines in order to show their interdependence and helps foster the transdisciplinary aspects of the relationship between nature and human society. It deals in detail with interdisciplinary and trandiscplinary subjects, but it is also disciplinary as each major core subject is covered in great depth, by world experts. Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Mathematical Sciences Biological, Physiological ...
David Arctur (UT Austin) and Erin Robinson (ESIP) present on EarthCube Community Engagement. Robert Corrigan (Smithsonian) talks about the Encyclopedia of Life.
"This 58 minute video was apparently the first of it's kind to combine instructional info with celebrities who practice the martial arts in film and in their personal lives. Hosted by actor James Hong several celebrities, supported by movie and television clips of themselves in action, talk about the martial art's they practice and the secrets of their styles." - IMDB Loren Avedon, Billy Blanks, Dah-Ve Chin, Ewart Chin, Itzak Dadon, Danny Glover, James Hong, Walter Jones, Bernadette Wu Krug, Nancy Kwan, Lorenzo Lamas, Eric Lee, Jalal Merhi, Kokie Nassim, Bernie Pock, Cynthia Rothrock, John Saxon, Karen Sheperd, Austin St. John, Thuy Trang, Ron Yuan, Master Zhou.
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Subscribe for more videos : https://www.youtube.com/user/pebbleslive?sub_confirmation=1 Pebbles presents “Encyclopedia of Human Body anatomy”, a video to describe the anatomy of Human Body and its functions. It is essential for everyone to know about our own body and this video throws light on various parts and body functioning systems. The video covers Hairs and Nails, Digestive System, Urinary System, Nervous System, Sensory Organs (Eye, Skin..) and Reproductive System. In addition, it also gives details about blood groups, nutrition and also about vitamins and the effects of their deficiency. The simple to understand descriptions with excellent pictures and videos make learning a joyous experience. To test the understanding, Questions and Answers are also included. The animations whe...