The Ethnobotany of Eden: The Colonial Quest for Green Gold in the Humid TropicsThe colonial era witnessed a fevered quest for the healing flora of the equatorial latitudes. Subscribing to ancient Eden notions of plant-people relations, European physicians and scientists were motivated by the belief that God had planted botanical cures for diseases in their places of origin. While many colonial bioprospectors subscribed ...
Discrete Microfluidics for More Efficient Pharmaceutical Compound TestingIn 2012, the declining efficiency and increasing cost of pharmaceutical research was noted in a phenomenon termed “Eroom’s lawâ€, to distinguish it from the efficiency of “Moore’s law†in transistor development. Though the reasons for this phenomenon are myriad and varied, the efficiency of drug development and commercialization ...
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Community Science Connecting People with their Watersheds Green FridayCommunity Science Connecting People with their Watersheds. Community Science, also known as Citizen Science, is taking the scientific research and public education arenas by storm. What does this new form of scientific inquiry have to offer to watershed research?  What kinds of deep connections are made by the general public engaging ...
