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….
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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…
Industrialization of the oceans
Robert Bryce, author of several good books about energy and technology, published an article in Forbes magazine drawing on Program for the Human Environment work about industrialization of the oceans…
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….
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…