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”…
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Cities and Infrastructure: Synthesis and Perspectives [PDF]
R Herman, JH Ausubel. pp. 1-21 in Cities and their vital systems: Infrastructure, Past, Present, and Future, National Academy, Washington, DC
1988
This article, as well as the full publication in which it originally appears, is also available on the National Academies Press website, located at https://www.nap.edu/books/0309037867/html/….
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…
Beginning to build a neotropical bird species index with DNA barcodes
…thereby point to a large body of biological knowledge. There are more bird species in the Neotropics than anywhere else. Over 4,000 of the approximately 10,000 world bird species live…
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…
Newsprint
Finnish analyst Lauri Hetemaki documents a powerful example of Dematerialization in the U.S. newsprint market. For more information, see, Hetemäki, L. 2005, Chapter 6.2.2 “The U.S. newsprint market”, pp. 77-80,…
Visualizing large data sets
…in looking at individual species and their close genetic neighbors. However the NJ tree contains only about 100 sequences from 20 species per page, and so runs to 22 pages….
Single locus mtDNA resolves freshwater snail species
Freshwater snails are intermediate hosts for schistosomiasis and flukes, trematode parasites that infect approximately 10% of world’s human population. Freshwater snails are also indicator species for water quality. Snail identification…
Revealing krill diets with DNA
Krill are shrimp-like crustaceans found throughout the world’s oceans. The Antarctic krill, Euphasia superba, is thought to be the most abundant species on the planet in terms of biomass (500…