…2016: https://www.mvtimes.com/2016/06/01/late-night-splash-dark-holds-surprise/ We continue to be thrilled by ways that eDNA allows us to discover the animals in the water around us. For more, see https://phe.rockefeller.edu/blog/2018/01/11/edna-seasonal-fish-abundance-study/ and https://phe.rockefeller.edu/blog/2017/04/12/fishing-for-dna-paper-published/ . …
…article about professional master’s programs appeared in The Scientist on 3 April 2000 – Designer Degrees or Academic Alchemy? – Professional master’s programs attempt to teach skills for todays world…
…say the Internet for short, have started vigorously in only a few countries, particularly the United States. The Internet vastly reduces transaction costs, in money and time, and thus can…
…gas (methane), of course, is CH4. If we are concerned about greenhouse gas emissions, smog, and spills, decarbonization is the powerful, clear energy prescription. The global energy system has been…
…of atmospheric carbon absorbed, foresters can exploit several fast-growing species. Grier and coworkers tabulated many examples of net primary productivity, largely of above ground biomass, and found growth as fast…
…the Philosophy of Nature at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut of the Wissenschaftszentrum Nordrhein -Westfalen and at the University of Essen. Sustaining the Human Environment: The Next Two Hundred Years–Chauncey Starr, President…
…April 2019 Discover Our old friend Tommy Gold would be thrilled. A paper by Peter Barry and Co. in Nature magazine explores what happens when biology meets subduction: https://deepcarbon.net/could-microbes-be-gatekeepers-earths-deep-carbon https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1131-5…
…At 600m2 each, the USA increase would consume 6 million hectares, about the land area of Belgium plus the Netherlands or five Connecticuts. Globally, if everyone new builds at the present…
…Jesse Ausubel at the dinner in honor of the film at the home of the French ambassador in Washington DC. See also the earlier entries below. https://phe.rockefeller.edu/blog/2016/01/30/short-videos-of-galatees-the-seasons/ https://phe.rockefeller.edu/blog/2015/11/26/the-seasons-2-minute-teaser/ …
…the video. For more information see What’s New entries from 19 December 2016 https://phe.rockefeller.edu/blog/2016/12/19/glasgow-talk/ and 4 March 2016 https://phe.rockefeller.edu/blog/2016/03/04/glasgow-cities-lecture/. Thanks again to Prof. Colin McInnes of the University of Glasgow….