Posts from the ‘biodiversity’ category

Announcing the “Voyage of the Beagle” trading card game. Plus a call for some crowdsourced goodness!

The Phylo project is hard at work on preparing the next high quality Phylomon* deck, and this one will revolve around Charles Darwin and his wonderful…

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New species: Yoda purpurata (or literally “Purple Thing That Looks Like Yoda”)

From Observations on torquaratorid acorn worms (Hemichordata, Enteropneusta) from the North Atlantic with descriptions of a new genus and three new species, via the Guardian.

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Biodiversity caught on Google’s Street View #mesmerizing

There might not be a truer visual representation of our contemporary wired world than Jon Rafman’s web-based “9 Eyes” project, for which he culled the most…

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Check out some of the proofs for the Beaty Museum Phylomon Deck!

Things over at the Phylomon site have been quiet of late, but that’s because folks have been working hard on the print version Beaty deck. They…

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Bird art made from maps.

(Click on images for larger version – recommended for proper effect) By Jason LaFerrera. —

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Coral Reef Deck for Phylomon Project now available as a free pdf download.

Sponsored by the fine folks over at the World Science Festival, I must say that this deck looks awesome! Go here for details on the deck…

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“Have we always had a whale?”

Sometimes I feel like a tourist in my own city. Aside from the usual places (the aquarium, Granville Island, Gastown, etc), Vancouver has many other sites…

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We are all connected

Lovely video for the WWF. Reminds me of a biodiversity game that we once played with a Gr7 class, where each kid was a different critter…

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The PHYLO(MON) project: Information Meeting Numero Uno (March 25th)

O.K. We’re just about ready to launch this thing, so it’s high time, I had a proper chance to talk about it. So… If you are…

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