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2007 TED Prize winner E.O. Wilson on TEDTalks

submitted by Fedquip

1 decade 7 years 7 months 3 weeks ago

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, eo wilson

TED Website

As E.O. Wilson accepts his 2007 TED Prize, he makes a plea on behalf of his constituents, the insects and small creatures, to learn more about our biosphere. We know so little about nature, he says, that we're still discovering tiny organisms indispensable to life; and yet we're steadily, methodically, vigorously destroying nature. Wilson identifies five grave threats to biodiversity (a term he coined), and makes his TED wish: that we will work together on the Encyclopedia of Life, a web-based compendium of data from scientists and amateurs on every aspect of the biosphere.

13 Comments

great post. didn't know about this.

I have 'The Ant' by Holldobler and Wilson sitting three feet to my left.

that was great

ant

Bamdrew: Me too but on my right side on a bookshelf.

Related video: http://www.videosift.com/video/EOWilson-portrait-of-the-brilliant-Harvard-naturalist

BicycleRepairMan

*promote , in honor of the Encyclopedia Of Life, which went online today, unfortunatly, I cant seem to get into the site at the moment:

http://www.eol.org

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Sunday, April 8th, 2007 10:12am PDT - promote requested by BicycleRepairMan.

Thanks for the reminder BRM - I also can't seem to get into the site.

oh..i'm now, it takes awhile to load

*long

Invocations (long) cannot be called by xxovercastxx because xxovercastxx is not privileged - sorry.

*long

This video has been flagged as being at least 10 minutes in length - declared long by calvados.

*talks

Adding video to channels (Talks) - requested by gwiz665.

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