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…

The Virtual Ecology of Industry

JH Ausubel. Journal of Industrial Ecology 1 (1): 10–11 1997

…delivered at United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Timber Committee Team of Specialists on New Products, Recycling, Markets, and Applications for Forest Products, June 1994. Copies available from USDA Forest…

Does Climate Still Matter?

JH Ausubel. Nature 350: 649–652 1991

…Union (solid bars), data as of 1986 (USSR State Committee on Statistics, Statistics on social indicators and capital vintage structure in industry, undated memo, Institute for Social and Economic Statistics,…

Daedalus, Summer 1996

…answers they provide are provocative, unexpected, and compelling. Contents (click on the hyperlinks for the full-text article) Introduction–Robert M. White, Senior Fellow of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and…

The Census of Marine Life: Progress and Prospects

JH Ausubel. Fisheries 26 (7): 33–36 2001

…Hampshire, University of Hull (U.K.), and University of Southern Denmark have recently committed to launch Centers for the History of Marine Animal Populations.  The HMAP program will create and make…

Rhythms of the Universe

…5 short segments posted on YouTube. This segment captures the sound and video quite well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu1JCQj5HLY Other segments capture the excellent conversation of Mickey Hart and George Smoot, e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U89XR5KhOWA…

Short videos of Galatee’s The Seasons

…Jesse Ausubel served as a science advisor, great 30-second Japanese teaser: https://youtu.be/pRHfSgdCXMs And a 1 minute 42 second teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdLrFO06yM8 And one that shows some of the film’s techniques: https://www.facebook.com/LesSaisons.lefilm/videos/1132390206780130/…

More fishing for DNA on Martha’s Vineyard

…2016: https://www.mvtimes.com/2016/06/01/late-night-splash-dark-holds-surprise/ We continue to be thrilled by ways that eDNA allows us to discover the animals in the water around us. For more, see https://phe.rockefeller.edu/blog/2018/01/11/edna-seasonal-fish-abundance-study/ and https://phe.rockefeller.edu/blog/2017/04/12/fishing-for-dna-paper-published/ .  …

eDNA and Loch Ness

…in an AP Television segment about searching for the Loch Ness monster using eDNA. Mark’s interview and footage begins about 2 minutes 50 seconds into the 8-minute segment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5UPXmP5YE0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj8qoHoa0Vg…