LA Times on CoML

A January 11 column in the Los Angeles Times favors the Census of Marine Life over the mission to Mars. So do we! Read our copy of the column (PDF)….

Technology and Human Environment

The passage of time has connected the invention of the wheel with more than ten million miles of paved roads around the world today, and the capture of fire with…

Tommy Gold, 1920-2004

…revolution. The 14 September New York Times reports a new PNAS article providing strong evidence for Tommy’s view. A memorial service is planned for Tommy in Ithaca on 13 October….

Goobye and Good Luck: It can happen here

New York Times for attacking McCarthy in a sermon entitled “It can happen here” in July 1953, more than 3 months before Murrow aired his first show on CBS TV….

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…

Mark Stoeckle mitochondria paper in Human Evolution

world are no greater than differences between pigeons https://uk.news.yahoo.com/genetic-differences-between-people-across-184451249.html?guccounter=2 Europa Press, newswire, Spain La diferencia genética entre humanos, en el promedio de las especies https://www.europapress.es/ciencia/laboratorio/noticia-diferencia-genetica-humanos-promedio-especies-20180521172546.html Agencia EFE, Spain Demostrado, no…

Fusion power density demonstrated

…hydrocarbons.  The recent JET fusion experiment achieved density 10,000,000 times coal  with deuterium-tritium fuel.  Note: *CANDU is a pressurized heavy water reactor.  Sources of data:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density and https://euro-fusion.org/eurofusion-news/dte3record/.  Figure prepared…

Census of Marine Life Antarctic book

…Preface, p. 6 of the prior link. New Antarctic atlas offers index of marine life BBC News – ‎‎ More than 9,000 species, from single-cell organisms to penguins and whales,…