Making Nature Useless

…Nature Useless: Relative Dematerialization & Absolute Peaks. We also post Jesse’s brief (3-page) prepared remarks, On Useless Nature, subsequently published in RealClearScience (18 Sept 2015). Some coverage at https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-humans-and-nature-co-exist/ https://reason.com/archives/2014/11/10/making-nature-useless…

Coverage of eDNA & trawl study

…DNA in seawater offers a new measure of marine populations Agencia EFE, Spain  El análisis del ADN ambiental permite saber el número de peces de los océanos https://www.infobae.com/america/agencias/2020/12/03/el-analisis-del-adn-ambiental-permite-saber-el-numero-de-peces-de-los-oceanos/ Tencent, Mainland…

Marine Life Around Martha’s Vineyard

…2010 issue of Martha’s Vineyard Magazine publishes “From cod to conch: How the fisheries have shifted focus over the past twenty-five years,” by Mike Secombe, with quotations from Jesse. https://www.mvmagazine.com/article.php?25218…

Drone flight over Rock U campus

One of our colleagues took his drone for this aerial tour of The Rockefeller University campus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TP1Hqy9Tb4…

Census of Marine Life goes Experimental and Weird

…the deep sea, including a Piglet Squid and Football Octopod. Webby’s are awarded both by an expert jury and by popular polling. To vote for the video, visit https://www.youtube/webby and…

Sewage archives

…2016). A video of this experiment may be accessed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plVk4NVIUh8 From DS Thaler and TP Sakmar, Archiving time series sewage samples as biological records of built environments. BMC Infectious Diseases 21(601)…

Precision agriculture in Wall Street Journal

…greenhouses are another important story, another big step toward what in the 1980s we started calling Landless Agriculture. This National Geographic story 2017 shows the importance of greenhouses.  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/holland-agriculture-sustainable-farming/ ….