Death and the Human Environment: The United States in the 20th Century [PDF]

JH Ausubel, PS Meyer, IK Wernick. Technology in Society 23 (2): 131–146 2001

…percent).  The linear transform eases the comparison among cases and the identification of the duration and midpoint of the processes, but also compresses fluctuations. Typhoid (Figure 2) is a systemic…

Special Report

Jesse is quoted in the Wall Street Journal, “Auto Industry Feels Threatened; Is Heat Essentially Unhealthy?” Special Report: Global Warming Auto Industry Feels Threatened; Is Heat Essentially Unhealthy? October 19,…

Some Ways to Lessen Worries about Climate Change [PDF]

JH Ausubel. The Electricity Journal 14 (1): 24–33 2001

million hectares, or 80,000 square miles. Yet, compared to 1997, rice production reportedly fell only about 1% and total cereal production increased slightly. Still, we can adapt more. Water is…

Visions of the 21st Century

…of the discarded goods, ought to translate into huge reductions in waste.” But technology is not enough. Just as critical are changes in attitudes and lifestyles. Brad Allenby, AT&T’s vice…

Rare mineral species

…People enjoy the news – covered in at least 51 countries and 19 languages. BBC Earth’s rarest minerals catalogued https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35569659 DPA / APA (newswires, Germany, Austria) Weniger als ein Würfel…

Can Technology Spare the Earth?

JH Ausubel. Am Sci 84 (2): 166–178 1996 Republished in Current Perspectives in Geology, Fourth Edition, Michael McKinney, Robert L. Tolliver, Parri Shariff, eds., Wadsworth, Boston, MA, 1998.

…of material (and the piles of tire carcasses blighting landscapes and breeding mosquitoes). Lightweight optical fibers with 30 to 40 times the carrying capacity of conventional wiring and invulnerability to…