Jacques Perrin

The festival in Washington DC celebrating the nature films of Jacques Perrin opened last night with an event highlighting Galatee’s new Oceans Project. We post Jesse’s Welcoming Remarks to Jacques…

Barcode Blog

With DNA barcoding for species identification creating excitement and controversy, Mark Stoeckle has launched the “Barcode Blog” to share the community news….

China Maglev Progress

While we prefer lateral suspension approach to the German approach, we are pleased to observe China speeding along the learning curve for maglev technology….

Vern Ruttan Article

Jesse’s comment about Vern Ruttan’s article on technologies that might transform the economy appeared in the spring issue of the journal Issues in Science and Technology….

CoML Bermuda Triangle

The Census of Marine Life issued a press release 4 May on a cruise to look at sea bugs deep beneath the Bermuda Triangle….

I Figli strappati

In 1982 Jesse translated from Italian into English about 200 pages from the unpublished diaries of Fey von Hassell, who had grown up in Rome in the 1930s as daughter…

How can EcoCity get its food?

A paper we encouraged Paul Waggoner to prepare, “How can EcoCity get its food?” is published. The paper examines the ecological footprint of an American diet on the land around…

French CoML Slide Show

The French newspaper, Liberation, assembled a slide show of photos of plankton from the Bermuda triangle cruise of the Census of Marine Life by superb photographer and scientist Russell Hopcroft….

NYTIMES Newspaper Circulation

On 9 May 2006 The New York Times reported the decline in daily US newspaper circulation from 63 million in 1984 to 45 million in March 2006. The associated fall…

Serious Games

Our longstanding interest in Serious Games extended during the past year to the Reinventing Public Diplomacy Through Games Competition organized by Josh Fouts and Doug Thomas at USC sponsored by…