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…

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…

FISH-BOL now online

The website for the project we helped start to develop DNA barcodes for all fish, appropriately called “FISH-BOL”, is now on-line at https://www.fishbol.org/….

Deep carbon interest

The newsletter Oilprice.com takes an interest in the Deep Carbon Observatory and abiogenic methane in a good article,The Search for Deep Oil and Gas, by Brian Westenhaus. Deep Carbon Interest…

ABBI brochure

We post Mark Stoeckle’s beautifully illustrated brochure for the project to develop DNA barcodes for all birds, the All Birds Barcoding Initiative (ABBI). https://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/docs/ABBI-barcoding%20life%20takes%20flight%20v1.1.pdf…

Eucarbon

As co-discoverers of “Decarbonization”, we were amused to find a container of Eucarbon (“Good carbon” in Greek) made by a Viennese manufacturer early in the 20th century. The old label…