passing of Rodney Nichols
…Rockefeller University itself. Here are notices in the 2 September New York Times from Rod’s family and from The Rockefeller University. We will miss Rod greatly. Jesse offers a Remembrance….
…Rockefeller University itself. Here are notices in the 2 September New York Times from Rod’s family and from The Rockefeller University. We will miss Rod greatly. Jesse offers a Remembrance….
What’s in the world’s most popular beverage-tea? Mark Stoeckle helped lead three NYC high school students on a DNA barcoding investigation of commercial tea products, published today in Nature’s online…
Addressing Environmental Quality and Public Health at the Community Level: A Problem Statement IDDO K. WERNICK The Rockefeller University, New York, NY SUMMARY As the size and diversity of the…
…P. Little, The New York Botanical Garden Grace Young, Catherine Gamble, and Rohan Kirpekar inspect tea labels. The dried and sometimes cooked or fermented bits of plants used to make…
We have posted an article by Greg Easterbrook that appeared today in The New Republic magazine, “America the O.K. -Why life in the U.S. has never been better,” that quotes…
Galatee’s The Seasons, on which Jesse Ausubel served as a science advisor, earns good reviews. Review: The Nature Documentary ‘Seasons’ Looks at Land Animals New York Times ‘Seasons’ takes a…
…PSAT in 10th grade, then various SAT subject tests, AP tests, and the SAT or ACT achievement test (sometimes taken two or more times). Fortunately for students and their parents,…
German journalist Heinz Horeis who specializes in energy and environment visited the PHE in late 2007. The Swiss weekly news magazine Weltwoche published in German 6 March 2008 a substantial…
…Finally, English historian of science Simon Mitton, has completed the first history of deep carbon science, Carbon from Crust to Core: A Chronicle of Deep Carbon Science. Mitton’s 400-page book,…
…to create a constantly evolving encyclopedia that lives on the Internet, with contributions from scientists and amateurs alike. To transform the science of biology, and inspire a new generation of…