UNIV 3581 Blog

Hi Everyone,

This entry inaugurates a reference site for my current and former UNIV 3581 students at the University of Memphis. Course materials that were available on WebCT are now available here as a reference. In addition, I encourage current and former students to continue to participate in an ongoing dialog about the three prime epistemological modalities of faith, reason, and imagination by using the course site's message boards and chat rooms.

This public blog is also available as a forum to post news items relevant to our course. To that end, I call your attention to the following:

May 9, 2007
National Briefing | Science
Coming Soon All Knowledge
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The world?s scientists plan to compile everything they know about all of Earth?s 1.8 million known species and put it all on one Web site, without charge and open to everyone. The effort, the Encyclopedia of Life, will include species descriptions, maps, videos and links to entire genomes. Its first pages of information will be shown today in Washington, where the effort, expected to take 10 years, is being announced by some of the world?s leading institutions. Two foundations have given $12.5 million to pay for the first two and a half years of the project.