Washington Post Virtual-U

Virtual-U and the Serious Games movement that Jesse has helped build makes the front page of the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40639-2004Oct17.html We have a PDF version here: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/WashPost18Oct2004.pdf…

Supergrid2

…and potential solutions for this potential continental energy exchange, which could become over the decades an eBay for buyers and sellers of protons and electrons from kilowatts to gigawatts. https://www.conferences.uiuc.edu/supergrid/agenda.html…

SuperGrid2 January 2005

…2 conference on the Continental SuperGrid for distribution of electricity and hydrogen have been posted by Paul Grant along with lots of other good material about the SuperGrid at: https://www.w2agz.com/SG%20-%20SuperGrid%202%20Proceedings.htm…

Tsunami blog

An American high school teacher is blogging the Census of Marine Life cruise now underway to explore the seafloor at the Tsunami epicenter: https://www.armadaproject.org/journals/2005-2006/holt12.htm…

Secret Forests of El Salvador

…almost 40% between 1992-2001. https://www.cifor.cgiar.org/docs/_ref/polex/english/ The full reference of the article is: Hecht, S.B., S. Kandel, I. Gomez, N. Cuellar, and H. Rosa. 2006. Globalization, Forest Resurgence, and Environmental Politics…

Serious Games

…(https://www.dmill.com) and Dave Rejeski nucleated the Serious Games initiative. Jesse still hopes to find a programmer who would take the 1981 Greenhouse Effect board game and turn it into an…

Loglet Oil Analysis

An oil analyst makes creative use of Loglet Lab to analyze oil production and the peak oil question: https://www.theoildrum.com/story/2006/9/3/113719/7594…

DNA barcodes for almost all North American birds published

…paper on barcodes for bats as well as a methodological paper, in Molecular Ecology Notes. For a copy of the paper as well as images and other information, visit https://www.barcodeoflife.org/barcode/batsbirds/…

Tommy Gold’s url

…the page has material through October 2000. We may be missing material that was entered between 2000 and 2004, but this is much better than disappearance! June 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20050616080751/https://www.people.cornell.edu:80/pages/tg21/  …

Fish DNA Barcode CBS morning show

…Stoeckle appeared on the CBS Morning Show discussing “Shocking Sushi Secrets” based on Kate and Louisa Straus’ study of fish identity using DNA barcoding.  The 4-minute video is at: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4377085n%253fsource=search_video…