Mexico barcode surprises
…and colleagues (same institutions as above) demonstrated that Common Opposum (Didelphis marsupialis) and Virginia Opposum (D. virginiana), which are sympatric (live in the same area) in Mexico, are readily distinguished…
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Decarbonization in The American
Energy author Robert Bryce publishes a piece in The American magazine that refers heavily to our work on Decarbonization….
Nature Rebounds
Jesse Ausubel’s 55-minute talk (plus 30 minutes of Q&A), Nature Rebounds, to the Long Now Foundation on 13 January 2015 at the San Francisco Jazz Center is on-line. Thanks to…
Glasgow Cities lecture
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…
Energy Xchange radio interview
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….
Visualizing birds: Part 2. Distant clusters, unfinished taxonomy
In 1911, Rutherford proposed correctly that essentially all the mass of an atom is concentrated in a tiny “central charge” (what we now call the nucleus) and that the rest…
Arthur L. Singer, Jr. “Easy to Forget, and So Hard to Remember”
Arthur L. Singer, Jr., allows us the honor to post his 90-page “East to Forget, and So Hard to Remember,” covering his career at MIT, the Carnegie and Sloan Foundations…
Andy Marshall Foundation seminar on experimentation, intellectual courage and mentorship
For its 2021 Annual Review, the Andrew W. Marshall Foundation presented an hour-long seminar in which Jesse Ausubel speaks briefly on experimentation, Melissa Flagg on intellectual courage, and Dan Patt…
Visualizing birds: 4. Diagnostic differences
In 2004, the American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU) (Banks et al. 45th supplement) recognized most of the smaller-bodied forms of Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) as a separate species, Cackling Goose (B….
eDNA work in progress
We post a Schematic of an eDNA metabarcoding protocol for marine fish. We recently showed that current laboratory protocols optimize sensitivity and reproducibility, especially for more abundant fish populations (ICES…