As part the Vocational Service Enterprise Forum, Ian Bentley introduced Dr Kate Robb, the Founding Director and Head of Research at the Marine Mammal Foundation.
Her research led to the formal description and naming of a new Australian species of dolphin, the Burrunan Dolphin, Tursiops Australis.
This is one of a series of articles focussed on how vocations have changed in our contemporary world. The Vocational Service Committee is sponsoring the series.
Posted by PDG Murray Verso, End Polio Now Coordinator
Over the past 40 years, Rotary and its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative have reduced the incidence of poliomyelitis by 99%. Thanks to our eradication efforts more than 20 million children have avoided the devastating effects of polio.
The Bookworms discussed “The Silkworm” by Zoom on Monday.
Private investigator Cormoran Strike returned in a new mystery, “The Silkworm” by Robert Galbraith, author of the #1 international bestseller The Cuckoo's Calling. (Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series)
Readers enjoyed last week's "Jesters" where we reproduced the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational
The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.