Abstract
Life-long learning is a trait of many scientists, faculty members, as well as editors and I am no exception. As a biologist and an experienced college faculty member, who has also spent over 12 years serving as editor of scientific journals and books, I have seen the rising cost of often hyperspecialized, scientific venues. Taking the path of being part of the solution, I am weaving my passion for the sciences and education into a novel, professional, and adventuresome professional journey. This new journey is a scientific, peer-reviewed journal entitled, Life: The Excitement of Biology, herein abbreviated LEB (http://essential.metapress.com/content/122778). I conceived the name, Life: The Excitement of Biology, in the early 1990s, when I used to live in Berkeley, California. Although back then I was not ready to use this name, it remained in my heart. Nearly 20 years later, in late 2009, as I was looking for new editorial options, Life: The Excitement of Biology, resurfaced effortlessly, like a message on a fortune-telling toy. This name represents the enthusiasm I have often been attributed and the passion I have for my scientific research, teaching, and editorial vocations. From our beautiful garden in York, Pennsylvania, USA, filled with joy, music, laughter, and sunshine, I began developing the idea of a new scientific journal early in 2010. Today, December 20, 2012, I am welcoming the world to Life: The Excitement of Biology, published by my own company, Blay Publishers LLC (www.blaypublishers.com). LEB’s mission is to provide the global scientific community with diverse, high quality, interesting, and intelligible articles on a wide variety of biological and related scientific and educational topics. Life: The Excitement of Biology aims to promote broad understanding of all forms of life, such as bacteria, plants, fungi, animals, and others at all levels of the biological hierarchical organization, from the atomic to the biospheric. Also, LEB promotes understanding of life through deep time, from the early records of life to life’s current manifestations on Earth – or elsewhere. Inclusivity is the thrust of Life: The Excitement of Biology. LEB hopes to excite scientists, nature lovers, and anyone for whom learning about the living world is in his/her heart. The first issue of LEB contains several scientific papers, two of which I highlight now. The opening scientific contribution, penned by Cabrera et al., discusses a new host plant record for the Citrus Fruit Borer, Gymnandrosoma aurantianum Lima, 1927 (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), a
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