In 1987, the few dozen GPS models available were mostly larger than 200 cu in and cost $15,000 to $45,000. (https://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1988inna.meet..158C) Today there are thousands of models, many for under…
…its collections of the September 11 Digital Archive. For the press release about the accession visit https://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2003/03-142.html , while the Symposium program and eventually its webcast are at https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/911symposium/ ….
An engaging and amusingly illustrated update on DNA Barcoding by Mark Stoeckle and Paul Hebert appears in the October 2008 issue of Scientific American, on newsstands and web today, with…
Jesse returned today from the Azores where the international Scientific Steering Committee for the Census of Marine Life met and welcomed to port the MS Loran and G. O. Sars,…
…contains over 109 million records from over 180,000 species, about 70% of described marine species, and offers wonderful data access, archiving, and visualization. Today, thanks to software wizardry and persistence…
The New York Times recognizes the work of the Antarctic team of the Census of Marine Life in an editorial today. Jesse had the privilege with the CoML Scientific Steering…
Today’s New York Times Science Times section has an article A Species in a Second: Promise of DNA ‘Bar Codes’ with a good history of the DNA Barcode project and…
The Census of Marine Life issued today a press release, largely prepared by Jesse, about its highlights for 2005. 2005 has been a great year for the CoML….
…give some quantitative examples of the uncertainty associated, even in the present day, with fertility rates. Nevertheless, we believe that the long-run and comparative nature of our approach makes the…
…“dematerialization” of human societies under way? Can we identify a decline over time in the weight of industrial materials used to produce the end products consumed today in more and…