…world enter the marketplace, often as filets or steaks lacking distinguishing external features. In October 2011, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) formally adopted DNA barcoding for seafood identification, the…
Zoonotic viruses are like introduced species–most perish, a few cause localized outbreaks, and a tiny fraction spread widely. Unfortunately, the tiny fraction have ruinous potential. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a…
Jesse’s essay “Will the Rest of the World Live Like America?” appears in Technology in Society’s 25th anniversary issue. https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/LiveLikeAmerica.pdf…
On 22 June Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, received the first Millennium Technology Prize [www.technologyawards.org] (1 million Euros) in Helsinki. Jesse was one of the speakers at…
…honorary doctorate on Jesse Ausubel. Jesse thanks 35 years of wonderful colleagues at the NAS/NAE, IIASA, Rockefeller, Sloan, and around the world for the collaborative works that St. Andrews recognizes….
Scott Tinker and Harry Lynch have made the documentary film ever about the world energy system, Switch. Jesse Ausubel was privileged to advise a bit on the film. The excellent…
…how the present quieting of the world economy may advance research in marine sound. High-quality observations of the ocean soundscape, as well as possibly related behavior of marine life during…
The essay Cars and Civilization by Jesse Ausubel has been translated into German by Thilo Spahl and appears (with fewer illustrations) in Thilo’s 2018 book Around the World in 80…
We posted two of our older papers, Rails and Snails and the Debate over Goals for Science and Graphical Representations of World Population Growth…
Bird barcodes fly in. So far, researchers have deposited 3308 avian COI barcodes from about 800 species, which represents 8% of world birds, to the Barcode of Life Database (BOLD)…