DNA Barcoding of Nutritional Supplements

…Barcode of Life supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Mark led the writing of a December 2003 meeting report that envisioned “a world in which any person anywhere anytime…

Matt Ridley on Peak Farmland

…of cropland use, gazing at a wide expanse of land that will be spared for Nature.” If not for biofuels, say scientists, farmland usage would already be declining. Jesse Ausubel…

Barcoding of Life Conference a success!

and three major barcoding initiatives launched: 1) World Fishes, 2) All Plants of Costa Rica, and 3) World Birds, the latter led by Mark Stoeckle together with researchers at Guelph…

The Seasons 2-minute teaser

and then the emergence of humans, led to the natural world as we know it. Filmed over a four-year period in the national parks and animal reserves of Poland, Romania,…

NAP books from 1983 (Thanks, Google).

…Committee, National Research Council, Washington DC , 1983. Toward an International Geosphere-Biosphere Program: A Study of Global Change, National Research Council, Washington DC , 1983. “Changing Climate” was the first…

Passing of Dr. Robert M. White

Dr. Robert M. White, for whom Jesse Ausubel worked at the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering during 1977-1979 and 1983-1988 passed away at age 92. To…