永别了,青蛙？ 致命真菌袭击两栖动物

“我们地球上一次遭遇这样近乎全面的物种大灭绝,还是恐龙所在的那个时期。现在,谁都无法否认, 那一次大灭绝改变了地球。”——乔·门德尔松,亚特兰大动物园几十年来,科学家们一直知道两栖动物种群处境困难。而“动物保护国际”与其合作伙伴 2004年编撰的《2004年度全球两栖动物评估》更发布了令人震惊的消息。在被评估的5700多种青蛙,蟾蜍等两栖动物中,几乎三分之一属于濒危物     

贻我以花床

贻我以花床 这可以称做“昆虫的插花艺术”吧。科学家最近发现,学名为Osmia avosetta的雌蜂会用一片片花瓣打理成独特的巢,让幼虫裹在温暖、富含营养的家居环境中过冬。     

Faction fights, student protests, and rebellion: the politics of beer-drinks and bad food in the Transkei, South Africa, 1955-63

This article examines two cases of conflict from the Transkei region of South Africa. In the first instance in 1955, young men caught up in a stick fight after drinking beer were arrested, tried, and convicted, and they received harsh sentences of six months of hard labor. In the second case in 1961, boys at an elite school in Umtata protested their poor food and lodging arrangements, set fire to the school library, and threatened to kill the headmaster. While they were convicted, their punishment of caning was considered a very light sentence. These two cases illuminate the emerging nature of youthful resistance to the inception of home rule that was later to give rise to the Bantustans, as well as the response by state officials seeking to cope with the enlarging rural opposition to the structures of apartheid. The paradox of the strikingly different sentences is examined and explained.     

Ethnicity, development and gender: Tsáchila indigenous women in Ecuador

In recent decades, indigenous populations have become the subjects and agents of development in national and international multicultural policy that acknowledges poverty among indigenous peoples and their historic marginalization from power over development. Although the impact of these legal and programmatic efforts is growing, one persistent axis of disadvantage, male–female difference, is rarely taken into account in ethno-development policy and practice. This article argues that assumptions that inform policy related to indigenous women fail to engage with indigenous women's development concerns. The institutional separation between gender and development policy (GAD) and multiculturalism means that provisions for gender in multicultural policies are inadequate, and ethnic rights in GAD policies are invisible. Drawing on post-colonial feminism, the paper examines ethnicity and gender as interlocking systems that structure indigenous women's development experiences. These arguments are illustrated in relation to the case of the Tsáchila ethno-cultural group in the South American country of Ecuador.     

上海：中国过去与未来的交汇之外

下雨的时候,数百万骑自行车的行人穿上了黄色、蓝色或红色的雨披,整座城市被柔软、湿润的色彩淹没。街道变成了镜子,映照出路边梧桐树闪着微光的模样——我想,第一次来上海的最佳时机可能莫过于此吧。     

Old and cared for: place of residence for elderly women in eighteenth-century Toulouse

Although they lacked the ideological and economic advantages of patriarchal authority, women in eighteenth-century France were no less likely than men to receive support in their old age from friends and family. Elderly women rarely lived on their own, and when they could not rely on their children for support, they found care in more distant kin and friends. This support was not derived from economic coercion but from a vague sense of moral duty. Informal networks of care sufficed for both the rich and the poor except in cases of extreme illness.