Science and Diplomacy

Aware of our long-standing interest in science & diplomacy and belief that science effectively bridges peoples, Harvard physics professor Richard Wilson contacted us in December 2003 about helping U. of…

Two CoML reports

Two recent reports from the Census of Marine Life have drawn worldwide attention. Discoveries of the month-long Hidden Ocean expedition in the Arctic on the US Coast Guard Icebreaker Healy,…

Fortune on the Supergrid

Fortune magazine’s 8 August issue publishes “Meet the Supergrid” about Chauncey Starr and the idea we have helped develop about a continental supergrid for joint transport and storage of electricity…

More papers

We post some more of our older papers: Science International: A US View of its Institutional Needs, Materialization and Dematerialization: Measures and Trends, Consuming Materials: The American Way, and Cities…

FISH-BOL now online

The website for the project we helped start to develop DNA barcodes for all fish, appropriately called “FISH-BOL”, is now on-line at https://www.fishbol.org/….

ABBI brochure

We post Mark Stoeckle’s beautifully illustrated brochure for the project to develop DNA barcodes for all birds, the All Birds Barcoding Initiative (ABBI). https://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/docs/ABBI-barcoding%20life%20takes%20flight%20v1.1.pdf…

Five new old papers

We post new scans of four of our older papers: A Review of Estimates of Future Carbon Dioxide Emissions, part of “Changing Climate: Report of the Carbon Dioxide Assessment Committee”…

Eucarbon

As co-discoverers of “Decarbonization”, we were amused to find a container of Eucarbon (“Good carbon” in Greek) made by a Viennese manufacturer early in the 20th century. The old label…

Goobye and Good Luck: It can happen here

Seeing the good new film about Edward R. Murrow, “Goodbye and Good Luck,” reminded Jesse Huntley Ausubel that his godfather, Reverend Joseph Huntley, made the front page of the New…

Serious Games in Washington Post

The effort we have encouraged by USC to conduct a competition to create Serious (Video) Games about international relations kicks off with coverage in the 16 October Washington Post….