Secret Forests of El Salvador

…the Tread of Population on the Land: American Examples and How Much Will Feeding More and Wealthier People Encroach on Forests?. A standard refrain was, “Maybe in the USA but…

Lounsbery Political Attitudes

The Richard Lounsbery Foundation sponsored a new survey of political attitudes of American professors by Neil Gross (Harvard) and Solon Simmons (George Mason U.). Jesse offered opening remarks on behalf…

Students Use DNA Barcodes to Unmask “Mislabeled” Fish at Grocery Stores, Restaurants

…of Life: www.eol.org Barcode of Life Database: www.barcodinglife.org Consortium for the Barcode of Life: barcoding.si.edu Barcoding marine species: www.marinebarcoding.org FishBol: www.fishbol.org Barcoding blog: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/blog Ten Reasons for Barcoding Life: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/docs/TenReasonsBarcoding.pdf “Barcode of Life” Scientific American, October 2008: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/docs/BarcodeScientificAmerican.2008.10.pdf…

WilsonBook Energy Speech

Venerable (1898) publisher H W Wilson periodically compiles major American speeches. Representative Speeches 2008-2009 edited by Brian Boucher balances the Inaugural Address and two other speeches by Barack Obama with…

J Ornithol paper

PHE researcher Mark Stoeckle is co-author on Jan 2009 J Ornithol paper comparing Scandinavian and North American birds, which found divergent lineages in 19 (24%) of trans-Atlantic species, demonstrating DNA…

Update-Cardiovascular vs. Cancer

…contributer to the steady decline in cardiovascular deaths since 1965 and the more recent flattening of cancer-deaths. For example, epidemiologists associated with the American Cancer Society recently reported a 30%…

Jesse Ausubel elected to AAAS Class of 2011

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects Jesse as a member of the Class of 2011. AAAS Class of 2011 (PDF) Rockefeller University Newswire press release…

Jesse Interviewed about Energy on Radio

As part of American Entrepreneur Radio’s “Energy: Powering the Future” series profiling energy in the US, Ron Morris talked for an hour with Jesse Ausubel. The live program aired Thursday…

Urban Barcode

…all the teams in the prize ceremony on 6 June 2012 at the American Museum of Natural History, On the Success of the First New York City Urban Barcode Project….

Meat & Potatoes

This evening at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown MA Jesse Ausubel will give a talk on “Meat & Potatoes and the American Landscape.” Young reporter Nathaniel Horwitz prepared a…