The CIA for decades overstated the size of the Soviet economy and thus its threat to the USA. Worldwatchers have yearly forecast a food crisis from the exhaustion of soil…
…Environment, National Academy Press, Washington DC, 1989. W. Dale Compton and Joseph A. Heim, eds., Manufacturing Systems: Foundations of World-Class Practice, National Academy Press, Washington DC, 1992. Robert A. Frosch, Toward the…
…play an increasing role in the world of art as well. Until recently, physics and chemistry application such as radiocarbon dating and imaging techniques dominated scientific applications to art, allowing…
For 200 years, the world has progressively lightened its energy diet by favoring hydrogen atoms over carbon in our hydrocarbon stew. Energy technologies succeed when economies of scale form part…
The passage of time has connected the invention of the wheel with more than ten million miles of paved roads around the world today, and the capture of fire with…
Jesse’s recent paper, “Renewable and Nuclear Heresies” continues to get a lot of news coverage. For more interesting reading, the journal PNAS has made the full text of Thomas Gold’s…
Jesse was interviewed by Daniel Sieberg of CBS News for an Eye to Eye segment on The Encylopedia of Life. You can watch the four minute video here….
Science News featured our work on DNA barcoding of birds as its cover story 4 December with a great cover illustration. https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/ScienceNews_4Dec2004.pdf…
This article, as well as the full publication in which it originally appears, is also available on the National Academies Press website, located at https://www.nap.edu/books/0309037867/html/….
The Continental SuperGrid concept for distribution of hydrogen and electricity that we have aided and abetted is gaining attention. An AP story in USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2003-04-10-super-grid_x.htm A Science Daily news…