Chernobyl After Perestroika: Reflections on a Recent Visit

JH Ausubel. Technology in Society 14: 187–198 1992

…rises, changes, and falls in political and economic systems? Fourth is the need to consider the international status of sites of environmental hazards as well as environmental beauty. Scientists and…

Decarbonization: The Next 100 Years

…of flowing through pipelines and into tanks.  Systems of tubes and cans can deliver carefully regulated quantities of fuel from the scale of the engine of a motor car to that…

The Census of Marine Life: Progress and Prospects

JH Ausubel. Fisheries 26 (7): 33–36 2001

…the Census in general, require close partnership between national fisheries agencies and oceanographic research institutions. The Census also requires the contributions of marine laboratories and museums of natural history, repositories

Because the Brain Does Not Change, Technology Must

JH Ausubel. Production Efficiencies: The Engineers' Report, American Association of Engineering Societies, Washington, D.C. 14–18 1999 Republished in: IEEE Aerospace and Electronic SYSTEMS 14(10):3-6, October 1999. The paper is based on a talk Jesse gave at the UN Commission on Sustainable Development meetings in New York in April 1999.

…combustion releases energy. But burnt carbon in local places can cause smog and in very large amounts can change the global climate. Raw carbon blackens miners’ lungs and escapes from…

Rise and Fall of SO2 emissions in USA

We post the rise and fall of sulfur dioxide emissions in the USA, which form an Environmental Kuznets Curve where richer is first dirtier and then richer becomes cleaner, as…

Seasons USA theatre release schedule

…Jesse Ausubel at the dinner in honor of the film at the home of the French ambassador in Washington DC. See also the earlier entries below. https://phe.rockefeller.edu/blog/2016/01/30/short-videos-of-galatees-the-seasons/ https://phe.rockefeller.edu/blog/2015/11/26/the-seasons-2-minute-teaser/    …

Reasons to Worry About the Human Environment

JH Ausubel. Journal of the Cosmos Club of Washington D.C 8 (1): 12 1998 Republished in Technology in Society 21:217-231, 1999. 

…the causes include lead, cadmium, and other elemental exposures. In any case, a massive increase has occurred in the United States of diagnoses of Attention Deficit–Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The drug…

Illinois Crop

…(not far from European meat eating but below USA). The early deviations from the second logistic also show the havoc that politics can create. Mao was an enemy of meat….