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11/15/2008 12:59 AM
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Santa Fe High teacher headed to Galápagos Islands (Santa Fe New Mexican)
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Photo: Santa Fe High School science teacher Marcia Barton, left, talks to Cobey Swartz, 16, about his presentation on the Galápagos Islands. Barton is going to the Galápagos on a teacher scholarship later this month.
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11/20/2008 04:48 AM
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Jesuit teacher chosen for Toyota program (The Oregonian)
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Jennifer Cournia, a science and mathematics teacher at Jesuit High School, was one of 30 secondary school teachers nationwide chosen for the Toyota International Teacher Program. About 1,000 teachers applied for the program. The program will be held Nov. 22...
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11/16/2008 08:28 AM
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DNA to save a mockingbird (Pretoria News)
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A mockingbird that sowed the seeds of evolution in the mind of Charles Darwin stands on the precipice of extinction, with no more than about 100 breeding pairs left alive in its home on the enchanted Pacific islands of the Galapagos Archipelago.
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11/16/2008 02:46 AM
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Outdoors Calendar (Baltimore Sun)
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BEST BET Saturday "Undersea Journeys," photo and video exhibits on Australia and the Galapagos Islands, 7 p.m., Oregon Ridge Nature Center, 13555 Beaver Dam Road, Cockeysville. Tickets: $9. For information: 410-666-2326.
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11/15/2008 11:07 AM
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Darwin's mockingbirds featured in London exhibit (Boston Globe)
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Two dead birds, one big idea. Mockingbirds collected by Charles Darwin on the Galapagos Islands may not be the most visually exciting part of an exhibition that opened Friday at the Natural History Museum, but they stimulated the thinking that led to the theory of evolution.
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11/19/2008 03:23 AM
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Bird's eye view (BBC News)
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Studying Darwin's pigeons, Dodos and smelly seabirds
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11/20/2008 01:01 AM
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Amid Economic Downturn Incredible Real Estate Opportunities Abound in Panama (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
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Costa Pedasi, a new luxury gated beachfront community on the Azueros Peninsula, Panama, offers a unique investment opportunity and safe haven from the world's turbulent times. Costa Pedasí is a luxury beachfront gated community developed now in Panama consisting of private villas enjoying stunning ocean views.
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11/15/2008 10:09 AM
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Darwin's mockingbirds featured in London exhibit (The Charlotte Observer)
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(By ROBERT BARR, Associated Press Writer) Two dead birds, one big idea. Mockingbirds collected by Charles Darwin on the Galapagos Islands may not be the most visually exciting part of an exhibition that opened Friday at the Natural History Museum, but they stimulated the thinking that led to the theory of evolution. The specimens have never before been on public display. Darwin found that the ...
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11/19/2008 06:01 PM
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Kunde label also on library (Sonoma Index-Tribune)
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JANE KUNDE will be honored at the Sonoma Valley Regional Library on Wednesday. Robbi Pengelly/Index-Tribune Jane Kunde believes it's important to make a contribution, to do something that makes a difference. So for 25 years now, she's been volunteering at the Sonoma Valley Library.
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11/15/2008 10:17 AM
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Darwin's mockingbirds featured in London exhibit (The State)
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Two dead birds, one big idea. Mockingbirds collected by Charles Darwin on the Galapagos Islands may not be the most visually exciting part of an exhibition that opened Friday at the Natural History Museum, but they stimulated the thinking that led to the theory of evolution. The specimens have never before been on public display. Darwin found that the mockingbirds he saw in the Galapagos Islands ...
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