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The Rockefeller University honored Joshua Lederberg with an all-day Scientific Medley on 17 October 2005. Jesse had the honor of leading the organizing committee and moderating the program, which included…

The History of Marine Animal Populations (HMAP) project of the Census of Marine Life program honored Jesse with the opportunity to present the Keynote address to the HMAP Oceans Past…

On April 23, 2003 Jesse visited with Craig Venter at the Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives in Rockville MD to learn about IBEA’s plans for sequencing the microbial “marine genome”,…

Back in early 2002, concerned about ways to preserve and keep accessible websites important for history of science and technology, Abby Smith and David Kirsch brought Jesse in contact with…

DNA barcoding, like other rapidly diffusing technologies, elicits worries. Jesse Ausubel and Paul Waggoner have made a list of Barcoding Worries and Limits 1-9. We think it valuable to recognize…

Our colleague with the magic eye, Cesare Marchetti, fits the data on car fires from the Ramadan Intifada in France with the Loglet Lab model in both S-curve and linearized…

In 1992 we began to work on the question “How Much Land Can Ten Billion People Spare for Nature?” that led to our recognition of the Great Reversal of human…

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….

The All Birds Barcoding Initiative (ABBI) issued its Inaugural Workshop Report. The meeting was attended by 48 participants from 23 countries. At the close of the meeting, co-chair Allan Baker…

We and our associates are well-known fans of magnetically levitated trains for high-speed transport. We are pleased to learn that the experimental Japanese maglev train attained speeds as high as…