FISH-BOL now online

The website for the project we helped start to develop DNA barcodes for all fish, appropriately called “FISH-BOL”, is now on-line at https://www.fishbol.org/….

Interview by Heinz Horeis

…equivalent of sub-prime mortgages. “ “But humans are not rational. Why do people buy lottery tickets? They hope for a solution, effectively by magic, as lottery jackpot odds are one…

Does Climate Still Matter?

JH Ausubel. Nature 350: 649–652 1991

…than wind, steam ships rapidly became cheaper as well as faster than sailing ships, because their schedules were more regular and avoided the circuitous routes required by sailing vessels. Transport…

Daedalus, Summer 1996

…the Philosophy of Nature at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut of the Wissenschaftszentrum Nordrhein -Westfalen and at the University of Essen. Sustaining the Human Environment: The Next Two Hundred Years–Chauncey Starr, President…

Technical Progress and Climatic Change

JH Ausubel. Energy Policy 23 (4/5): 411–416 1995 Also pp. 501-512 in Integrated Assessment of Mitigation, Impacts, and Adaptation to Climate Change, N Nakicenovic, WD Nordhaus, R Richels, and FL Toth (eds), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, 1994.

…number of scientific and technological discoveries, 1400- 1900. Source of data: L. Darmstaedter, 1908. Fear that humanity was running out of inventions partly motivated Darmstaedter’s history. Scientists and engineers themselves…

Decarbonization: The Next 100 Years

…means big individual ZEPPs because the size of generating plants grows even faster than use, though in spurts.  Plants grow because large is cheap, if technology can cope.   Although the last wave…

Students Use DNA Barcodes to Unmask “Mislabeled” Fish at Grocery Stores, Restaurants

…of Life: www.eol.org Barcode of Life Database: www.barcodinglife.org Consortium for the Barcode of Life: barcoding.si.edu Barcoding marine species: www.marinebarcoding.org FishBol: www.fishbol.org Barcoding blog: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/blog Ten Reasons for Barcoding Life: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/docs/TenReasonsBarcoding.pdf “Barcode of Life” Scientific American, October 2008: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/docs/BarcodeScientificAmerican.2008.10.pdf…

Energy and Climate

…can lessen worries about climate change. Technology can make adapting to climate change, offsetting emissions, and preventing emissions cheap and effective. The trick is easing in the changes when the…