Potatoes challenge taxonomists
In 7 May 2009 Amer J Botany, David Spooner, scientist at USDA and University of Wisconsin, applies DNA barcoding to wild potatoes. According to the author, “the taxonomy of sect….
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NY Times again per K&L
Sushigate continues! The discovery of inaccurately labeled fish by Kate Stoeckle and Louisa Strauss (see 22 August 2008 What’s New entry) evoked a NY Times sequel story where chefs claimed…
eDNA featured in Martha’s Vineyard Times article
An excellent article by Sam Moore in the Martha’s Vineyard Times and its magazine Edible Vineyard feature Jesse Ausubel’s views and his collection of eDNA at the Inkwell Beach in…
DNA Barcoding of botanical products
Stimulated by a new article by our Guelph colleagues, the New York Times Tuesday 5 November ran a long article article about application of DNA barcoding to botanical products, and…
Wordle
The cool web app Wordle creates interesting word cloud summaries of papers, blogs. etc. Here are some summaries of PHE papers: Live Like America (original paper) St. Hubert (original paper)…
DNA barcoding Protocol for CoML
DNA barcoding is an exciting new approach to taxonomy that will have profound value for studies of environment and evolution. PHE Guest Investigator Mark Stoeckle took the lead in preparing…
“Forest Inventories: Discrepancies and Uncertainties.” by Paul Waggoner
Resources for the Future publishes an important discussion paper by Paul Waggoner on “Forest Inventories: Discrepancies and Uncertainties.“Â The paper organizes and documents the poor, confusing state of measurement and…
Global libido
David Goldman, aka Spengler, cites our 1998 essay “Reasons to worry about the human environment” in his provocative 13 Mar 2012 column in AsiaTimes “Japan’s lost libido and America’s asexual…
New software for visualizing the whole animal kingdom
Swiss bioinformatics wizard Wandrille Duchemin and PHE Guest Investigator David Thaler publish PyKleeBarcode: Enabling representation of the whole animal kingdom in information space in PLoS One. The computational advances in…
UN CoML Talk
On 4 June Jesse addressed a session of the UN Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and Law of the Sea in New York City about the Census of Marine Life….