Ocean exploration around the island of Montserrat
Jesse had the amazing experience of joining the science team aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus exploring life on sea floor volcanoes around the Caribbean island of Montserrat. A 19″ video…
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Time away
My apologies for absence of recent posts–I am working to get ready for Adelaide Barcode IV conference and will be away from the Barcode Blog for a while….
Jesse on Methane
Jesse shares his ideas about natural gas in a short essay, Generations of Methane, on p. 37 of the Summer 2010 issue of the EPRI Journal….
Decarbonization by McInnes
Colin McInnes, Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Strathclyde, published a wise essay in The Caledonian Mercury on 22 February 2012 that makes use of our work on…
Polartide.org
Produced by PHE associate and acoustician Perrin Meyer, polartide.org is an interactive meditation on time, oil stocks, and sea levels for the Maldives Pavillion at the 55th Venice Biennale. polartide…
Leonardo DNA project
Team members of the project “Using New Anthropological and Biological Tools to Learn about Leonardo da Vinci” with seed money from the Richard Lounsbery Foundation met 2-3 May in Florence,…
Mt paper supports Darwinian evolution
The article Why should mitochondria define species? Stoeckle M.Y., Thaler D.S. is grounded in and strongly supports Darwinian evolution, including the understanding all life has evolved from a common biological…
How accurate are BARCODE databases?
DNA barcode databases are a kind of wikipedia of DNA identifiers, with contributions by thousands of researchers. How accurate are they? How do records that meet the BARCODE standard compare…
Dominique de Saint Pern
The French newspaper Le Monde on 15 August 2008 featured an excellent article and an interview by Dominique de Saint Pern about the technical and scientific progress of the film…
More on BARCODEs as BIG DATA: Visualizing evolutionary constraint (II)
Last week’s post looked at amino acid variation among avian BARCODEs (11,000 sequences, 2,700 bird species). The findings were that common variants (present in >0.1% of sequences) are few and…