Fish DNA Barcode CBS morning show
Kate and Mark Stoeckle appeared on the CBS Morning Show discussing “Shocking Sushi Secrets” based on Kate and Louisa Straus’ study of fish identity using DNA barcoding. The 4-minute video…
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PNAS Dematerialization
For generations, people have lightened their environmental impact by multiplying their consumption less than their income. A combination of consumers tempering their consumption of goods and producers making the goods…
Dominique de Saint Pern
The French newspaper Le Monde on 15 August 2008 featured an excellent article and an interview by Dominique de Saint Pern about the technical and scientific progress of the film…
NY Times again per K&L
Sushigate continues! The discovery of inaccurately labeled fish by Kate Stoeckle and Louisa Strauss (see 22 August 2008 What’s New entry) evoked a NY Times sequel story where chefs claimed…
Wordle
The cool web app Wordle creates interesting word cloud summaries of papers, blogs. etc. Here are some summaries of PHE papers: Live Like America (original paper) St. Hubert (original paper)…
Barcoding in Scientific American
An engaging and amusingly illustrated update on DNA Barcoding by Mark Stoeckle and Paul Hebert appears in the October 2008 issue of Scientific American, on newsstands and web today, with…
CoML-New Species in Australia
Our Census of Marine Life colleagues exploring Australia ’s reefs have discovered hundreds of undescribed corals and other species, including a little animal that eats the tongues of fish. Browse…
On the Difficulty of Seeing What is Near
We post Jesse’s keynote talk, On the Difficulty of Seeing What is Near, delivered to the 2006 Kobe , Japan , conference of the Census of Marine Life on life…
Welcome Smriti Rao!
We wish a warm welcome to our newest colleague, Smriti Rao!…
Harvard Magazine and EOL
Harvard magazine runs a pleasantly Harvard-centric article about the Encyclopedia of Life , crediting alumnus Jesse with raising the funds to launch EOL. Â He recalls doing a few other…