Forests, Farms, and Materials

…long-term history and foreseeable technology developments across disciplines.  Data driven, our approach is anchored in statistical analysis of time-series datasets using models of growth and diffusion, particularly Lotka-Volterra dynamical systems….

Passing of Dr. Robert M. White

…who had the privilege of working with him.” The Washington Post ran a good remembrance. The New York Times also runs an obituary: Robert M. White, Meteorologist Who Revolutionized Weather…

Dis the Threat Industry

JH Ausubel. Technological Forecasting and Society Change 62 (2): 119–120 1999

…page of the newspaper everyday. Moreover, threateners contend they must inflate their claims to compete. And a few threats prove worse than assessed. Both supporters of slavery and abolitionists in…

We have posted three new

…Environment: Scientists’ Roles and Opportunities Jesse H. Ausubel In Mitigating International Discord, A. L. de Cerreno and A. Keynan, eds, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (866): 253-258,…

Stressful leisure

…on “Stressful Leisure” in World Magazine, a Christian weekly.  We had read the January 2006 report by Mark Aguiar and Eric Hurst on “Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation…

Zero emission power plant construction

We are pleased to read that North Carolina-based company NET Power Breaks Ground on Demonstration Plant for World’s First Emissions-Free, Low-Cost Fossil Fuel Power Technology. The NET Power technology, which…