Food Fraud – Washington Post

Our high school DNA study with Brenda Tan and Matt Cost was the lead item in front-page article on “food fraud” in Washington Post on March 30, 2010. In addition…

Jesse’s autobiography published & on sale

…a little more information, please see the 26 February 2014 post. Including tax and shipping to the USA, the cost on a Mastercard or Visa is EUR 26.48    …

DNA Barcoding of Nutritional Supplements

…can identify any species at little or not cost. That world is technologically upon us. This report addresses the formative stages of an initiative to bring this to society sooner…

Zero emission power plant construction

We are pleased to read that North Carolina-based company NET Power Breaks Ground on Demonstration Plant for World’s First Emissions-Free, Low-Cost Fossil Fuel Power Technology. The NET Power technology, which…

Diffusion of Social Phenomena

…share grows, it comes at the cost of shares of others. This process is well-described by the so-called “logistic substitution model.”   The logistic model also finds applications in demography, notably…

Energy and Climate

…of their conditions of evolution.   Like computers, to grow larger, the energy system must now shrink in size and cost.  The successful decarbonization of the energy system, the key to the alleviation…

Oceans

…Aquatic environmental DNA (eDNA). Analyzing “naked DNA” in water samples can reveal what animals are nearby. Aquatic eDNA offers low-cost, minimally invasive technology to complement traditional surveys, including in difficult…

On Sparing Farmland and Spreading Forest

JH Ausubel. Forestry at the Great Divide: Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters 2001 Convention, Society of American Foresters, Bethesda MD 127–138 2002

…need to be careful in accepting definitions of Green. In fact, the unnecessarily high energy cost of modern agriculture should be reduced. The energy use can be split between machines…