On Sparing Farmland and Spreading Forest

JH Ausubel. Forestry at the Great Divide: Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters 2001 Convention, Society of American Foresters, Bethesda MD 127–138 2002

…replaced oral gossip. More recently, thinner paper has again replaced thicker paper, and television has replaced newspapers, lowering the intensity of pulp per GDP. Overall, history shows the extent of…

Astounding family lobster

…Tree syllid worm – Ramisyllis multicaudata Starry sea wanderer jelly – Marivagia stellata The Hoff crab – Kiwa tyleri Squidworm – Teuthidodrilus samae Jesse Ausubel’s ‘terrible claw’ lobster – Dinochelus…

Does Climate Still Matter?

JH Ausubel. Nature 350: 649–652 1991

…shelter are responses to the spatial and temporal variability of climate. Humans do not wait guilelessly to receive an impact, bear the loss, then respond with an adaptation. Rather they…

Census of Marine Life Antarctic book

…book is the work of 147 scientists from 91 institutions across 22 countries. A colorful 4-page flyer describes the book, which will be available for purchase through Amazon.com in November…

Full PDR issue online

The entire issue of Population and Development Review with our article about Peak Farmland is now online: Population and Public Policy: Essays in Honor of Paul Demeny https://www.popcouncil.org/publications/books/2012_PDRSuppPopPublicPolicy.asp and will…

How Did Noah’s Ark Float?

…far, in a free online service (https://www.eol.org/). “There are expectations of 8 to 50 million more species out there that we haven’t identified yet,” Edwards said. Other experts’ estimates of…

Maglevs and the Vision of St. Hubert [PDF]

JH Ausubel. Challenges of a Changing Earth 175–182 2002 (Proceedings of the Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 10-13 July 2001)

…living. In the end, two means exist to achieve the Great Restoration. St. Hubert exemplifies one, behavioral change. The hunter’s primitive weapons hint at the second, technology. What can we…

Manifesto for Clean Ocean

…Ocean Manifesto” https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2436864685283/a-clean-ocean-by-2030-un-experts-clean-ocean-manifesto SciTech Daily A Clean Ocean by 2030: UN Experts’ “Clean Ocean Manifesto” https://scitechdaily.com/a-clean-ocean-by-2030-un-experts-clean-ocean-manifesto/ Podcast, Germany #4: Die Zukunft der Meere – mit Angelika Brandt https://www.podcast.de/episode/587607889/4-die-zukunft-der-meere-mit-angelika-brandt Earth.com, United…

Added online reprints Malthus

Added online reprints Malthus and the Graduate Studentsand Working Less and Living Longer. Link to the American Scientist web site with the abstract of Can Technology Spare the Earth?…

We posted the online

We posted the online paper, Working Less and Living Longer: Long-Term Trends in Working Time and Time Budgets, complete with full tables and figures….