Please help me keep my science education going while I trot around the globe. [more inside]
posted by palmcorder_yajna on May 12, 2007 - 10 answers

I'm interested in becoming certified by the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences. Their Web site is rather cryptic: apparently they only send you the particulars of what the exam entails once you have applied to take it. Has anyone taken this exam or known someone who has? What's it like? Moreover, do you have a sense of how professionally useful the certification is at all? [more inside]
posted by zadermatermorts on Dec 7, 2006 - 3 answers

Do closed ecosystems, those glass globes with algae and shrimp and a twig, work? I'd like to get one, but they're pricey, and I'd like to know if they actually, you know, live for longer than five minutes. Picture here.
posted by OmieWise on Sep 29, 2005 - 13 answers