Update-Cardiovascular vs. Cancer

…decline in age-standardardized cancer death rates since 1990, resulting “mostly from reductions in tobacco use, increased screening allowing early detection of several cancers, and modest to large improvements in treatment

Added online reprints Malthus

Added online reprints Malthus and the Graduate Studentsand Working Less and Living Longer. Link to the American Scientist web site with the abstract of Can Technology Spare the Earth?…

Barcoding of Life Conference a success!

…and Smithsonian Institution. Excellent worldwide press coverage (link to attached pdf of barcode coverage). Our new barcoding brochure was well received at conference and downloaded heavily from our revamped website,…

Dematerialization

Marian Tupy makes ingenious use of our work on Dematerialization: Among our numerous papers on this theme are: JH Ausubel, PE Waggoner. Dematerialization: variety, caution, and persistence [external link]. Proc…

Macroscopes for Science lecture

…University of Florence, Italy, hosted by laser expert Roberto Bini. The hour-long audio of the lecture is at the link above, with the slides also showing once their turns come….

Ocean Exploration 2012 final report

…Ocean Exploration’s Second Decade, in Washington DC to NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco and other senior officials. [This post has been updated to fix the link to the presidential panel report.]…

Census of Marine Life Antarctic book

The Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) & SCAR-Marine Biodiversity Information Network BIOGEOGRAPHIC ATLAS OF THE SOUTHERN OCEAN was released in late August 2014. See three news stories below. The…

Cockroach

…6, 2015 in Nature’s open access journal Scientific Reports (link to article). This paper is the culmination of PHE’s National Cockroach Project  which enticed 85 citizen scientists to contribute…

Jesse’s remarks at DCO Rome meeting

…closing remarks in Italian at the 9 October symposium of the Deep Carbon Observatory at the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome. An English translation is also included at the link….