[Taxacom] april 1 or not?

[Gail Kampmeier]

I'm told by Martin Hauser that the first one is real: "synchrotron is 
real and many people are working on it with amber... there is even a 
facility outside Chicago who is using this technique. The guy gave a 
talk at ESA [Entomological Society of America] some years ago..."

Gail

>Here two links to stories on BBC well worth reading, even if they might turn
>out to be April 1 jokes..
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>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7324564.stm
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>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrxmpihCjqw
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>Donat


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Gail E. Kampmeier
Senior Research Entomologist
Illinois Natural History Survey,
Box 5 NSRC, MC-637
1101 W. Peabody, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
ph. 217-333-2824
fax 217-244-1707
email: gkamp at uiuc.edu
http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~gkamp/
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