Jesse at Millennium Technology Prize symposium
On 22 June Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, received the first Millennium Technology Prize [www.technologyawards.org] (1 million Euros) in Helsinki. Jesse was one of the speakers at…
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St. Andrews honorary doctorate for Jesse Ausubel
…honorary doctorate on Jesse Ausubel. Jesse thanks 35 years of wonderful colleagues at the NAS/NAE, IIASA, Rockefeller, Sloan, and around the world for the collaborative works that St. Andrews recognizes….
Switch energy film
Scott Tinker and Harry Lynch have made the documentary film ever about the world energy system, Switch. Jesse Ausubel was privileged to advise a bit on the film. The excellent…
Cars and Civilization auf Deutsch
The essay Cars and Civilization by Jesse Ausubel has been translated into German by Thilo Spahl and appears (with fewer illustrations) in Thilo’s 2018 book Around the World in 80…
Two new old papers
We posted two of our older papers, Rails and Snails and the Debate over Goals for Science and Graphical Representations of World Population Growth…
All Birds Barcoding Initiative (ABBI) flight update
Bird barcodes fly in. So far, researchers have deposited 3308 avian COI barcodes from about 800 species, which represents 8% of world birds, to the Barcode of Life Database (BOLD)…
Leonardo DNA Project in National Geographic
Leonardo DNA Project in the news The Leonardo DNA Project features on pages 49 and 54-55 of Claudia Kalb’s article about genius in the May 2017 issue of National Geographic…
Rare mineral species
…People enjoy the news – covered in at least 51 countries and 19 languages. BBC Earth’s rarest minerals catalogued https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35569659 DPA / APA (newswires, Germany, Austria) Weniger als ein Würfel…
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…
Energy and Climate
For 200 years, the world has progressively lightened its energy diet by favoring hydrogen atoms over carbon in our hydrocarbon stew. Energy technologies succeed when economies of scale form part…