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…
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PNAS Dematerialization
For generations, people have lightened their environmental impact by multiplying their consumption less than their income. A combination of consumers tempering their consumption of goods and producers making the goods…
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…
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…
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…
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….
The DNA They Leave Behind
Marine eDNA’s rapid progress and future potential highlighted by science writer Cheryl Lyn Dybas in September 2019 Oceanography, including commentary from Jesse Ausubel and Mark Stoeckle, and drawing on last…
“A Botanical Macroscope” – Jesse’s commentary in PNAS
Jesse’s commentary, “A Botanical Macroscope“, about the DNA plant barcode and its implications for the Encyclopedia of Life and related e-Biosphere initiatives, appeared in the 4 August issue of the…
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…