Garrison & Levinson transport book

William Garrison (University of California, Berkeley) and David Levinson (University of Minnesota) have published a second edition of their masterly book, The Transportation Experience: Policy, Planning, and Deployment. Among other…

Brewster Kahle speech

Back in early 2002, concerned about ways to preserve and keep accessible websites important for history of science and technology, Abby Smith and David Kirsch brought Jesse in contact with…

Global Greening on TV

Science writer Matt Ridley articulates compactly and powerfully the case for a global greening, drawing in part on our work on land sparing, in this 18-minute lecture….

Barcoding Worries and Limits

DNA barcoding, like other rapidly diffusing technologies, elicits worries. Jesse Ausubel and Paul Waggoner have made a list of Barcoding Worries and Limits 1-9. We think it valuable to recognize…

Frontiers issue on barcodes

Our close colleague David Thaler serves as a topic editor for Frontiers in Evolution and Ecology on DNA Barcodes. Please consider a submission. Have a look at: DNA Barcodes: Controversies,…

French Car Fires

Our colleague with the magic eye, Cesare Marchetti, fits the data on car fires from the Ramadan Intifada in France with the Loglet Lab model in both S-curve and linearized…

Dematerialization

Marian Tupy makes ingenious use of our work on Dematerialization: Among our numerous papers on this theme are: JH Ausubel, PE Waggoner. Dematerialization: variety, caution, and persistence [external link]. Proc…