…conference 22-25 October in Denmark. Jesse spoke about “Future Knowledge of Life in Oceans Past.†The news release and work presented at the conference attracted worldwide press coverage, including in…
…12 May 2006 entry. For more of our game news, see re Budget Hero, a 2005 Washington Post story, a 2004 story on the Serious Games movement, and an entry…
National Cockroach Project What High school students and other citizen scientists collecting and helping analyze American cockroaches using DNA barcoding. Status: Project completed. We thank our intrepid specimen collectors! NCP in the News…
Approximately 8,000 – 15,000 species of bivalves (clams, mussels, scallops, oysters, and relatives) are known. According to BOLD Taxonomy Browser www.barcodinglife.org, 620 bivalve species have COI barcode records so far,…
Jesse’s niece, Ramona Ausubel, has published a novel, The Last Animal, about a woolly mammoth starting a modern life. A companion essay, Science and Fiction Are Experiments That Ask the…
The newest version of PHE’s Loglet Lab software, LL5 is now available to users online. Software improvements in LL5 include more tools for statistical analysis, cleaner graphs, and a ‘Get…
In 1998, as part of biodiversity survey to assess the health of New York City’s Central Park, researchers at the American Museum of Natural History collected leaf litter samples. After…
To lift enthusiasts of distributed generation to heaven, our 1996 paper Elektron on pp. 157-158 proposed a “splicerâ€, a multi-purpose household energy alliance of 5 kW, to produce electricity, heat,…
…living longer: Long-term trends in working time and time budgets. de Koning finds the number of hours Dutchmen work during their lives gradually diminished. Men born in 1840 worked on…
We laughed from beginning to end reading the novel of our Mayo Clinic colleague Michael Joyner MD, Michelle the Archangel, a story of the 2020, 2024, and 2028 US presidential…