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While the sharks rule the depths and mankind clings precariously to the surface, the albatross owns the air above the sea. In the mid-1990s, when scientists first started tagging albatrosses for tracking via satellite, they discovered something astonishing: albatrosses spend 95% of their lives over the ocean, and most of that flying. Albatrosses have the longest wingspan on earth, and they can stay aloft continuously for years, dozing on the wing. In Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival--ignore the sappy subtitle--Carl Safina follows a single bird as it roams the globe gathering food...
Starting this week, users will be able to access the Harvard University Library’s more than 9 million records via the new and improved Harvard Online Library Information System (HOLLIS...
...artists--real-life bad guys who are after your money. According to the National Consumers League (NCL), Internet scams cost Americans more than $6 million last year--up from $3 million in 2000. Crooked Web auctions account for much of that, but 15% of online scams come directly via e-mail. How do they work? Susan Grant, director of the NCL's Internet Fraud Watch, has seen them all and was happy to walk me through the dot-cons that landed in my In box last week...
...same ingenuity and gusto as is tax avoidance, two competing pay-TV services, Vivendi's Telepiu and News Corp.'s Stream, have fared so poorly that they have had little choice but to combine their 2.3 million subscribers. Two struggling Spanish providers of pay TV by satellite, SogeCable and Via Digital, are headed down the same path...
...urban ring would connect many of greater Boston’s major hospitals and health services. Boston City Hospital, Boston University Medical Center, and the LMA health services—including Children’s Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School—would all be accessible via the prososed project...