Joshua Lederberg biography published
Genes, Germs and Medicine: The Life of Joshua Lederberg by U. of Toronto historian of science Jan Sapp has just been published. The book provides an engaging, balanced, and perceptive…
Genes, Germs and Medicine: The Life of Joshua Lederberg by U. of Toronto historian of science Jan Sapp has just been published. The book provides an engaging, balanced, and perceptive…
DNA barcodes index species. In most animal species studied so far, mtDNA differences within species are much smaller than those between species. As a result, species appear as distinct clusters…
A paper we encouraged Paul Waggoner to prepare, “How can EcoCity get its food?†is published. The paper examines the ecological footprint of an American diet on the land around…
The Sunday 5 June Independent published an excellent article about forests by Andrew Marszal that reports on our recent analysis of forest density….
A book from the History of Marine Animal Populations project of the Census of Marine Life program has earned a top history prize. The Bancroft Prize is “generally considered to…
DNA-based species descriptions could enable a catalog of life on Earth. Without some sort of automated approach, I believe this goal is unattainable. Insects are a good place to start…
We have added six new full-text (with figures) online papers: Human Population Dynamics Revisited with the Logistic Model: How Much Can Be Modeled and Predicted? Elektron: Electrical Systems in Retrospect…
The French newspaper, Liberation, assembled a slide show of photos of plankton from the Bermuda triangle cruise of the Census of Marine Life by superb photographer and scientist Russell Hopcroft….
On August 24th Jesse Ausubel was interviewed by Russ Roberts on EconTalk, a weekly economics podcast. The hour-long interview, Agriculture, Technology, and the Return of Nature, can be heard here….
A press release summarizes the research of the Deep Carbon Observatory on methane and other hydrocarbons that are not fossil fuels but rather abiotic in origin. Congratulations to Giuseppe Etiope…