This study examines the reasons farmers in East-Central Illinois continue to use controversial agricultural practices in the context of extreme criticism. Such practices – conventional plow tillage, application of potent agricultural chemicals, farming up to river banks – are attacked from diverse sources as inattentive to environmental conservation. Our results suggest these practices are impo...

The Arapahoe Snowfly, Arsapnia arapahoe (Nelson & Kondratieff)was recently discovered in six different first-order streams outside of the Cache la Poudre River Basin where it was previously considered endemic. Specimens of A. arapahoe were always collected in much lower relative abundance, 1.09% (±2.3SD), than other sympatric adult capniids. The first mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) b...

River restoration can enhance river dynamics, environmental heterogeneity and biodiversity, but the underlying processes governing the dynamic changes need to be understood to ensure that restoration projects meet their goals, and adverse effects are prevented. In particular, we need to comprehend how hydromorphological variability quantitatively relates to ecosystem functioning and services, b...

Ed Boyden is a well-known figure in the field of optogenetics: a pioneer of the technology and, in 2008, one of Discover Magazine’s top 20 scientists under 40. Now head of the Synthetic Neurobiology Group at MIT in Cambridge, he traces his role in devising the technology to his days studying electrical engineering at this same school on the banks of the Charles River, when he was trying to unde...

The Michigan home for disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines, is located at Grand Rapids, on the banks of the Grand river. The law creating this home was passed in 1885, and it was first occupied January 1, 1887. The object of the home is to provide a refuge for honorably discharged veterans who served in Michigan regiments, or who served in other regiments, but were residents of the state pri...

The high-resolution Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) is a new technology for cross-environment surveys of channels and floodplains. EAARL measurements of basic channel geometry, such as wetted cross-sectional area, are within a few percent of those from control field surveys. The largest channel mapping errors are along stream banks. The LIDAR data adequately support 1D and...

João Cabral de Melo Neto's poem "Morte e vida severina" focuses primarily on the satisfaction of human needs and on the condição severina--i.e., the poverty, hunger, joblessness, injustice, and early death that characterizes much of life in Northeast Brazil. In two episodes of the poem, human life is presented as a value ideal: during the dialog between the master carpenter and the protagonist ...

Coxsackie is a village on the banks of the Hudson River in upper New York State. In the course of investigating an outbreak of poliomyelitis there, Dalldorf and Sickles (1948) isolated a hitherto unrecognized filterable agent from the faeces of two children with lower limb paralysis. Neutralizing antibodies for this new virus appeared in the blood of both patients during convalescence. Attempts...