Why are flowers beautiful?

Last year, the Lotos Club invited Jesse Ausubel to give a short dinner address at their celebration of Earth. The little essay, Why are flowers beautiful?, draws on ideas about…

Jesse at The Lindbergh Symposium

The Lindbergh Symposium issues a press release about the 13 November 2004 Florida conference in which Jesse will speak about green mobility.

The view over “Democracy Plaza”

We post the view of the Rockefeller Center ice skating rink from Jesse’s Sloan office the morning after the Presidential election. (click on the image to see a larger view)…

John Steele

John Steele, great marine ecologist and former director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, passed away on 5 November 2013. On 11 January 2014, WHOI celebrated his career, described at…

CoML Press Release

The Census of Marine Life issues a press release highlighting its progress during the past year. https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/CoMLNov2004.pdf…

Antarctic CoML in the NYT

The New York Times recognizes the work of the Antarctic team of the Census of Marine Life in an editorial today. Jesse had the privilege with the CoML Scientific Steering…

DNA Barcode In New York Times

Today’s New York Times Science Times section has an article A Species in a Second: Promise of DNA ‘Bar Codes’ with a good history of the DNA Barcode project and…

The (New) Web of Life by Alan Burdick

On Earth, the quarterly magazine of the NRDC, published a detailed article, The (New) Web of Life , by Alan Burdick about the history and progress of the Encyclopedia of…