Animation of deep sea including our lobster

Neil Agarwal has created an informative and enjoyable dive into the deep sea where one passes species at their characteristic depths down to the deepest sea floor. At 250 meters…

Science and Diplomacy

Aware of our long-standing interest in science & diplomacy and belief that science effectively bridges peoples, Harvard physics professor Richard Wilson contacted us in December 2003 about helping U. of…

Two CoML reports

Two recent reports from the Census of Marine Life have drawn worldwide attention. Discoveries of the month-long Hidden Ocean expedition in the Arctic on the US Coast Guard Icebreaker Healy,…

Full PDR issue online

The entire issue of Population and Development Review with our article about Peak Farmland is now online: Population and Public Policy: Essays in Honor of Paul Demeny https://www.popcouncil.org/publications/books/2012_PDRSuppPopPublicPolicy.asp and will…

Fortune on the Supergrid

Fortune magazine’s 8 August issue publishes “Meet the Supergrid” about Chauncey Starr and the idea we have helped develop about a continental supergrid for joint transport and storage of electricity…

Empires

For several years Jesse Ausubel and Cesare Marchetti have been pondering the growth of human empires through the lens of biological models. The International Journal of Anthropology has now published…

Animal species and mitochondria

We post to BioRXiv, the pre-print server for biology: Why Should Mitochondria Define Species? Mark Y. Stoeckle, David S. Thaler Comments on the paper are most welcome.The study is grounded…