We post “Agricultural Technology and its Societal Implications” by our esteemed associate Paul Waggoner. The paper, which leads off the 25th anniversary issue of Technology in Society, likens society’s choices to navigating on a plane of sustainability, and extends application of the “ImPACT identity.”
https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/AgTech_Waggoner_TIS.pdf
We post a 30 March 2004 article in Spanish about Barcoding from the Costa Rican newspaper, La Republica, “Forest without secrets”
We post a summary of “Ten Reasons for Barcoding Life” by Mark Stoeckle, Paul Waggoner, and Jesse Ausubel.
We welcome Tony Barrett as a Research Intern to the Program for the Human Environment. Mr. Barrett is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego having earned a Bachelor of Science Degree with a major in Chemical Engineering. During his internship with PHE, he will be assembling and analyzing data from various sources to support ongoing research.
We post Jesse’s 2004 version of his talk “Does energy policy matter?” (text only, no figures) presented to the Keystone Energy Board in Colorado on 20 February.
A January 11 column in the Los Angeles Times favors the Census of Marine Life over the mission to Mars. So do we!
Many of the works of our esteemed colleague Cesare Marchetti are
now available on their own site: https://cesaremarchetti.org
PHE investigator Mark Stoeckle is quoted on DNA barcoding
in a vivid if not perfectly accurate article in the San Jose Mercury News.
https://phe.rockefeller.edu/BarcodeConference/articles.html#000243
The New York Times quotes us in an article on stablization of methane emissions.