[Taxacom] Google Trends

[Jim Croft]

Excellent!  Faith is restored!

...  but wait...  what's this?

Curses!  It's those damn Kansas bods skewing the data again...

And to think we entrust them with running Taxacom, and Truth as we know it!

jim

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Joe Miller <acaciamulga at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Interesting, when one adds the word evolution, which is the foundation of
> phylogeny and systematics, the trends change a little bit!
>
> http://google.com/trends?q=biodiversity%2C+taxonomy%2Csystematics%2C+phylogeny%2C+evolution&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
>
> Joe
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jim Croft <jim.croft at gmail.com>
> To: Arthur Chapman <biodiv_2 at achapman.org>
> Cc: Jim Beach <beach at ku.edu>; Brendan Lepschi <Brendan.Lepschi at csiro.au>;
> Bernard Pfeil <Bernard.Pfeil at csiro.au>; Joe Miller <acaciamulga at yahoo.com>;
> Judy West <judy.west at csiro.au>
> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 2:01:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Google Trends
>
> As a member of TAXAcom, what can I say?  :)
>
> and as for the superior self-righteousness of systematists and
> phylogeneticists:
> http://google.com/trends?q=biodiversity%2C+taxonomy%2Csystematics%2C+phylogeny&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
>
> Taxonomy rocks!  and the alpha the beta  :)    (= better... get it?
> Sorry, but you just have to explain jokes to systematists... :)
>
> jim
>
> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Arthur Chapman <biodiv_2 at achapman.org>
> wrote:
>> And it is interesting that 'taxonomy' is more popular than 'biodiversity'
>> (relatively speaking!)
>>
>>
>> http://google.com/trends?q=biodiversity%2C+taxonomy&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
>>
>>
>> Arthur
>>
>>
>> Jim Croft wrote:
>>
>> yeah, but you have to admit, it is still pretty cool to be able to
>> compare apples with oranges:
>> http://google.com/trends?q=apples%2C+oranges
>> even though they are as different as cheese and chalk:
>> http://google.com/trends?q=cheese%2C+chalk  :)
>>
>> Anyway, better get back to work...
>>
>> Does anyone know of any interactive keys (Delta, Lucid, Navikey,
>> whatever)  to mangrove species (plants, animals, fungi. whatever) from
>> any region?
>>
>> A quick web search revealed surprisingly not very much - a reference
>> to one on fungi and not much else....
>>
>> jim
>>
>> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Mike Dallwitz

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