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There is too much going on right now, I can hardly keep up. It is exhilarating, inspiring and jaw dropping to see the amount of knowledge and insight on the future of culture flowing around the web. Here is another example of such research and experimentation, recently undertaken at Stanford University.

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A group of the world’s leading scientists announced yesterday that they had joined forces to document the world’s 1.8 million named species in a massive new “Encyclopedia of Life.”

The unprecedented $12.5 million effort — a collaboration of Chicago’s Field Museum, Harvard University, the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass., the Smithsonian Institution, the Biodiversity Heritage Library and the Missouri Botanical Garden — aims to create separate Web pages on every known species within a decade.

Read full article (Washington Post, May 9, 2007)
EOL website