Painting of the Ausubel family lobster

Massachusetts artist Olivia Pattison who paints an animal each day has painted the Dinochelus ausubeli, the deepwater lobster named for the Ausubel family….

Iddo Breakthrough

PHE’s Iddo Wernick was named a Senior Fellow of the Breakthrough Institute for his work on the decoupling of resource use from the environment. This continues our connection with the…

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…

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…