Empires

For several years Jesse Ausubel and Cesare Marchetti have been pondering the growth of human empires through the lens of biological models. The International Journal of Anthropology has now published…

Serious Games in Washington Post

The effort we have encouraged by USC to conduct a competition to create Serious (Video) Games about international relations kicks off with coverage in the 16 October Washington Post….

Genome Web article

…which would strongly influence and advance the International Census of Marine Microbes of the Census of Marine Life. In response to a not-so-serious remark from Jesse about “What’s next after…

POGO report

…no organization that is consistently fostering these capabilities. We believe that POGO has the long-term perspective, the ocean observation focus, the international scope, and the organizational convening power to take…

Meat & Potatoes 1

We post “Meat and Potatoes and the American Landscape,” Jesse Ausubel’s lecture for the Sheriff’s Meadows Foundation at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown, Massachusetts, on the island of Martha’s…

Empires

Presentation-style version (color) of the paper , Quantitative Dynamics of Human Empires, International Journal of Anthropology 27(1-2): 1-62, 2012…

Soy el arbol!!

In Chile in early January we visited some of the world’s largest tree plantations as well as the wondrous intact indigenous forest of Isla Mocha. Thanks to Savithri Narayanan for…

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