Biology in Art

…play an increasing role in the world of art as well.  Until recently, physics and chemistry application such as radiocarbon dating and imaging techniques dominated scientific applications to art, allowing…

Technology and Human Environment

The passage of time has connected the invention of the wheel with more than ten million miles of paved roads around the world today, and the capture of fire with…

New Yeti Crab

…Paul Tyler, and Co. report on “The Discovery of New Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Communities in the Southern Ocean and Implications for Biogeography.”  Their findings include a new Yeti crab!…

New site design for PHE

Our new cool-looking PHE website is up and running, thanks especially to Jason Yung and Mark Stoeckle. A brand new publications database ties everything together, thanks to diligence of Smriti…

Five new old papers

We post new scans of four of our older papers: A Review of Estimates of Future Carbon Dioxide Emissions, part of “Changing Climate: Report of the Carbon Dioxide Assessment Committee”…

Robert Kates passed away, 89

Our beloved geographer colleague and friend Robert Kates passed away 21 April 2018 at the age of 89. Jesse met Bob in 1978 during preparations for the first UN World

Whole Wheat Woman

Considered the world’s first certified organic love song, Whole Wheat Woman is now available for your listening pleasure. In the spring of 1972 Jesse Ausubel had the fun of assisting…

Stressful leisure

…on Stressful Leisure in World Magazine, a Christian weekly. We had read the January 2006 report by Mark Aguiar and Eric Hurst on Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of…