The other night I watched one of the NOVA series called Lord of the Ants, the story about Ed Wilson’s rise in fame as the leading world authority on Ants and how the boy would change our view on the origins of life and the structure that supports it. As a leading Entomologist, Ed Wilson has done more for science and technology then most would ever know.

Ed Wilson's dream of listing every living species on the planet is now starting to be realized. The Smithsonian, Harvard University and several other institutions are pooling their resources to create a complete Encyclopedia of Life (http://www.eol.org/), with over 1.8 million entries. Naturalists will be able to compare minute differences and to establish the evolutionary pedigrees of any form of life. For Ed Wilson, it is the culmination of a lifetime's fascination with the vast diversity of life, the "macroscope" that he always wanted to go with his microscope.

I am always amazed at futurist who think they can foretell how the earth will survive in a major disaster. Albeit short of the earth being struck by an asteroid they call a planet killer are there ways you can survive in the future?

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