http://phe.rockefeller.edu/news News from the Program for the Human Environment at The Rockefeller University. Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:42:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The short video about the Encyclopedia of Life has been nominated for a Webby Prize. Please considering voting for it! http://phe.rockefeller.edu/news/archives/397 Andrew Revkin of the New York Times posts a blog Dot Earth: Can people Have Meat and a planet, Too? that refers to our ideas and those of our mentor Cesare Marchetti about in vitro protein (meat) production.  For more details of our thinking, enjoy Because the Brain Does Not Change, Technology Must. http://phe.rockefeller.edu/news/archives/395 The Technology-Entertainment-Design (TED) conference that helped launch the Encyclopedia of Life and connect it with hi-techsters prepared a 4-minute, 13 MB video [download it here] that both reports on progress and shows some nifty features in store for future EOL users. http://phe.rockefeller.edu/news/archives/392 German journalist Heinz Horeis who specializes in energy and environment visited the PHE in late 2007. The Swiss weekly news magazine Weltwoche published in German 6 March 2008 a substantial version of Heinz’ longer English conversation with Jesse. A couple of excerpts: "In twenty years, [renewable] sources will have failed economically, ... http://phe.rockefeller.edu/news/archives/391 With the Encyclopedia of Life  launched, we post a photo of most of the participants in the brainstorming meeting sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in July 2006 where the EOL concept took off.  In the back row from the left: Brewster Kahle, John McCarter, Mark Costello, James ... http://phe.rockefeller.edu/news/archives/388 The Encyclopedia of Life, for which Jesse served as founding chairman, goes live! Reuters offers a good sample story about the debut of this promising macroscope. Please visit the EOL and provide feedback to the EOL about the site design and operation. http://phe.rockefeller.edu/news/archives/386 Our work in the 1980s on Cities and Their Vital Systems with Robert Herman, Cesare Marchetti, Alvin Weinberg, Brian Arthur, Nebojsa Nakicenovic and others seems to have acquired cult status, and caused Jesse’s inclusion in a video podcast (high and low bandwidth) to introduce the 8 February 2008 special issue of Science magazine dedicated to cities.The issue also includes ... http://phe.rockefeller.edu/news/archives/385 Where did petroleum come from? How did it form? When? These are the first few questions the great scientist Dmitri Mendeleev asked in the chapter "On the origins of petroleum" in his book "Petroleum industry in Pennsylvania and Caucasus". The year was 1877, 120 years after Mikhail Lomonosov pronounced that ... http://phe.rockefeller.edu/news/archives/384 Top diver and videographer Rick Morris prepared a cool piece, Counting Creatures, about the Census of Marine Life, mixing footage of submarine life and an interview with Jesse. Thanks, Rick! (Counting Creatures is in QuickTime movie format). http://phe.rockefeller.edu/news/archives/378 What's happened to the forests of the former Roman Empire? This and other mysteries are probed in Quandaries of Forest Area, Volume, Biomass, and Carbon Explored with the Forest Identity, a sequel by Paul Waggoner and Jesse Ausubel to our 2006 PNAS paper Returning Forests Analyzed with the Forest ... http://phe.rockefeller.edu/news/archives/377