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The Grand Challenge - Uniting the Nation’s Biodiversity Collections through Digitization

On any given evening, it is commonplace for the nightly news to refer to debt and spending amounts in the billions and trillions of dollars.

The use of these massive numbers is so ubiquitous that many of us have become numb to the true magnitude of what one billion objects represent.

Consider this: to count from one to one billion, one number per second, without breaks or sleep, would take you thirty one years!

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