Feb. 8, 1865: Mendel Reads Genetics' Founding Paper (Wired News)
An Austrian monk is anything but pea-shy when he explains the principles of heredity.

Newly renovated, expanded credit union opens (Williston Herald)
Area residents are invited to visit the warm and welcoming professional environment at the expanded and renovated Williston Western Cooperative Credit Union main office this Wednesday during a special open house.

Preparing and surviving Mother Nature's cold shoulders (Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald)
What to do and what not to do for you and your family concerning severe winter weather in the Roanoke Valley.

February Geology and GSA Today Highlights (EurekAlert!)
( Geological Society of America ) GEOLOGY presents studies of mineralized microfossils in the Yukon; what the Great Barrier Reef tells us about sea level; a new find in Japan of fossilized iridescent leaf-beetle wings; the puzzle of Ediacara biota; mammalian fossils in Mongolia; a dust bowl long before the Dust Bowl in the North American Great Plains; fish-eating semi-aquatic spinosaurs ...

Say bye to paper, Hello to scanning (Evansville Courier & Press)
F or 2009, one of my personal goals was to convert my company, Second Gear, into a paperless office. This goal was partially inspired by a piece I read a few years ago in Fortune about how Bill Gates works (bit.ly/ebjgates). Gates uses e-mail, the Web and a variety of Microsoft technologies in lieu of newspapers, memos and notepads. Second Gear is small and mostly Internet based, but there was ...