Joshua Lederberg

…Program for the Human Environment in 1993. Jesse was honored to offer recollections of Josh at his memorial service in February 2008 and a tribute to Josh’s foresight at the…

We post the paper

We post the paper Death and the Human Environment, which appeared this month in the journal Technology in Society….

Tom Malone

…bringing attention to the likelihood of human-induced climate change. Jesse met Tom first in 1977 when Tom served as a member of the Climate Research Board of the National Research…

passing of Rodney Nichols

…the Program for the Human Environment for more than 25 years. Numerous interests, programs, and organizations united us, including scientific cooperation between nations in conflict and The Rockefeller University itself….

Finish for trains and start for maglevs?

…these general principles, extracted from widespread observations of human behavior over long periods, and use them to explain past transport and to project the next 50 to 100 years. Our…

Update-Cardiovascular vs. Cancer

Using more recent data, we updated our analysis of Death and the Human Environment published in 2001 on competition between cancers and cardiovascular conditions as the leading cause of death…