Program for the Human Environment

Todays Wall Street Journal has an article “Back to the Future: Mixing Work, Home Is a Very Old Dilemma” that quotes Jesse and references our work “Working Less and Living Longer.”

The Census of Marine Life released its annual highlights, now called the “Showcase Public Report” (5 MB). Jesse Ausubel and Paul Waggoner prepared the report with Darlene Crist and Darrell McIntyre of the University of Rhode Island, drawing on the remarkable work of the thousands of contributors to the CoML. The CoML highlights 2006 Site also enables visitors to:

• Download the Press Release
• View images & download hi-res versions
• View additional images & hi-res versions
• Download PDF version of Report
• Download PDF version of Report COVER
• Download Showcase Public Report. This report is the same text and images as the Highlights Report laid out to print on 8.5″ x 11″ paper with additional hyperlinks to individual projects, more information, images, or news releases.
• View videos
• Download PDFs of the translated text for the 2006 CoML Highlights Report in German, Portuguese, Chinese, and French

Feminism involves the entry of women into occupations from which they were excluded.  A report on the imprisonment of women in the US provides data on convicted women that presumably reflect a rise in women pursuing criminal careers.  Plotted by our colleague Cesare Marchetti, the data fit a logistic curve beautifully and thus suggest the coherence of the feminist movement as a whole and its likeness to thousands of other biological and social growth processes.  The midpoint of the growth, which quadrupled women convicts, was 1992.  Have women hit a ceiling in their penetration of criminal occupations or will another pulse follow?  For more information on logistic growth processes, see Loglet Lab.