A couple Bostonist editors noticed this image a few days ago and went crazy for it. We love the angle of the fisheye, how it makes the rhino look like it's busting out of a glass bubble to stare you down. Nice composition, interesting colors, and the other animals in the background really round out the picture.
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2008 marked the first year in human history that more than half the world’s population lived in cities. By 2030, about 5 billion people will reside in urban areas. Humanity’s migration to a handful of key population centers will test our knowledge of urban development, and force innovators to find more efficient ways to build and grow our cities. In this two-part series, we’ll examine the coming evolution of the metropolis. Today’s guide is Kristina Hill, associate professor at the University of Virginia, who lectured at the Harvard Museum of Natural History on March 18.
What forces are driving human evolution? Though scientists have witnessed natural selection of other species in nature and in the lab, our own changes have been a bit of a mystery. At the Harvard Museum of Natural History Thursday night, Pardis Sabeti of Harvard’s Center for Systems Biology explained how we have begun to scan our own genome to uncover evolution at work.
While Bostonist already passed on 200th birthday wishes to Charles Darwin, it didn’t seem quite right to end it there. So we decided to peruse some of the Darwin Day fare offered up by this uniquely scientific city. We think ol’ Chuck would’ve been pleased with the diversity of the events we managed to find. After all, if there is no variety within a population, natural selection can’t really lead to speciation…oh, never mind.
--So NOW Sal DiMasi wants to strike a deal on gambling? Guess we've learned one thing during the recent DiMasi stories. What happens in the State House stays in the State House. [Boston Herald]
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