The Energy Xchange, an independent producer of podcasts, recorded a 1-hour conversation on energy of
Scott W. Tinker – director, Bureau of Economic Geology,University of Texas at Austin;
Steven E. Koonin– former undersecretary for science, U.S. Department of Energy
Jesse H. Ausubel – director, Program for the Human Environment, The Rockefeller University;
Podcast and transcript are here. Faster to browse the text than listen.
Glasgow University will host a lecture by Jesse Ausubel Monday 17 April on The Nature of the City as part of a workshop, “Future cities: Do cities have limits?”
Here is the lecture on YouTube:
Want a special Valentine? Forget diamonds, get Sardinian Ichnusaite. The magazine American Mineralogist has published “On the nature and significance of rarity in mineralogy” by Robert Hazen and Jesse Ausubel.
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 Zucker: Manche Mineralien sind extrem selten
(Less than a sugar cube: Some minerals are extremely rare)
Die Welt, Germany
Vergessen Sie Diamanten! Verschenken Sie Edelsteine!
(Forget diamonds! Offer gems!)
Reuters
For Valentine’s Day gift, forget diamonds: try ichnusaite
New Scientist, UK
Earth’s rarest minerals could hint at life on other planets
Europa Press (Spain)
MÁS DIFÍCILES DE ENCONTRAR QUE LOS DIAMANTES Se contabilizan más de 2.500 minerales raros en la Tierra
(HARDER TO FIND THAN DIAMONDS more than 2,500 rare minerals are recorded on Earth)
Agencia EFE (Spain)
Los 2.550 minerales raros de la Tierra hacen único al planeta azul
(2,550 rare earth minerals make the blue planet unique )
ANSA Italia Anelli davvero unici? Dimentica i diamanti meglio un ichnusaite sardo https://www.ansa.it/lifestyle/notizie/lusso/accessori/2016/02/10/anelli-davvero-unici-dimentica-i-diamanti-meglio-un-ichnusaite-sardo_5eec0492-7c5c-4928-88b4-81d4cc3e6504.html
Russian news https://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=2720495
Rare cobalt minerals (species burgessite, cobaltkortingite, cobaltomenite, pakhomovskyite, and theresemagnanite) are all pink or red. Cobaltomenite is known from 4 localities: Argentina (the type locality), Congo, Bolivia, and Utah. Cobaltmenite samples from the Emery County, Utah locality:
1) https://bit.ly/1O8mtjR
2) https://bit.ly/20SjsRj
Photos: https://rruff.info/
For Galatee’s new film, The Seasons, for which Jesse Ausubel served as a science advisor, great 30-second Japanese teaser:
https://youtu.be/pRHfSgdCXMs
And a 1 minute 42 second teaser:
And one that shows some of the film’s techniques:
https://www.facebook.com/LesSaisons.lefilm/videos/1132390206780130/
One of our colleagues took his drone for this aerial tour of The Rockefeller University campus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TP1Hqy9Tb4
As part of our ongoing interest in diffusion of social phenomena, PHE researcher Iddo Wernick has published a paper, Jews in Time and Space, using the writing of books to describe historical development of the Jewish people as waves of organic development, still ongoing.
DNA barcoding gains another level of community acceptance–the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) will publish “Species-Level Identification of Animal Cells through Mitochondrial Cytochrome c Oxidase Subunit 1 (CO1) DNA Barcodes” on January 16, 2016. Mark Stoeckle is a co-author.
We post “Ocean Past, Ocean Future: Reflections on the Shift from the 19th to 21st Century Ocean”, Jesse H. Ausubel, Michelson Memorial Lecture, 15 October 2015 United States Naval Academy, Annapolis MD.”
We post (belatedly) Self-sinking capsules to investigate Earth’s interior and dispose of radioactive waste, Jesse H. Ausubel, Seminar presentation delivered 26 July 2011, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Program of Study in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. Jesse and 2011 summer intern Catherine Fisher carried out this work.
Exciting preliminary results from our NYC/NJ Aquatic Environmental DNA (eDNA) project are posted on our updated webpage https://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/blog/nycnj-aquatic-vertebrate-edna-project/ The project aims to detect fish and other aquatic vertebrates by analyzing the traces of DNA they leave behind in the water. So far we have analyzed about a dozen water samples and successfully detected eDNA of 8 freshwater and 10 marine fish species, as well as a variety of birds and mammals. This project is part of a joint initiative in oceans research with Monmouth University.