We have posted an article that appeared today in Science magazine, “Temperate Forests Gain Ground”, that discusses the paper “Searching for Leverage to Conserve Forests: The Industrial Ecology of Wood…
…Decoupling for Conservation. Jesse’s remarks begin at 29′ 15″ and run 8 minutes (scroll down to the video box & use slider). The video begins with Linus Blomqvist’s introduction of…
An article in the February 2010 issue of Physics Today highlights the recent Richard Lounsbery Foundation efforts in science & diplomacy whose underlying logic Jesse articulated in 2001 with Alex…
…barcoding was published in February 2003. The results displayed today on BOLD Taxonomy Browser demonstrate amazing progress in a short time, thanks to the inspiration and hard work of many!…
…Their work appears today in Nature Publishing Group’s open access journal Scientific Reports https://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130911/srep02635/full/srep02635.html The resulting Klee diagrams are both beautiful and scientifically informative. In the figure below, bird and…
…should help drive technological improvements analogous to those spawned by the Human Genome Project which enabled its completion for a fraction of the originally projected cost. As of today, researchers…
…Changing Ocean Exploring a Census of Marine Life Today. Jesse Ausubel gave the opening talk, a 25-minute retrospective on the CoML. We post a pdf of the slides here. We…
…identification was incomplete. It would be of interest to repeat the database searches (as of today GenBank contains 1 L. lunaris COI sequence and BOLD taxonomy browser lists 2), but…
…EOL podcast on lichen–“a tropical rainforest in miniature”). Today about 13,500 species are described (lichens are named for fungal component), representing 18% of the 74,000 known fungi. It is remarkable…
…entry) evoked a NY Times sequel story where chefs claimed supreme expertise, but then today Edward Dolnick countered with a wise Op-Ed “Fish or Foul” about the judgment of experts….