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…
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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,…
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…
The Great Reversal: The Potentials for Forest Protection to 2050
…production of forest products into a small area of the world’s forests, leaving the rest for other purposes such as preservation of biodiversity, carbon sequestration and protection of water catchments….
Nature celebrates taxonomy as Carl Linnaeus turns 300, discovers DNA barcodes
…DNA barcodes) for the world’s macrolepidoptera”, which “would be a wonderful lever for bringing new resources into the field.” A central theme echoed in many of the pieces is the…
Rockefeller #1
We share in the pride of everyone at The Rockefeller University that it ranked #1 in a recent survey of the impact of research of 750 universities around the world….
Vast microbial genetic diversity found in oceans, stimulating new informatics tools
…the world’s oceans. A large collaboration, the Global Oceanic Sampling (GOS), led by Craig Venter, analyzed microbial DNA collected by filtering seawater at 250 sites along a several thousand kilometer…
An article about the Sloan-sponsored
…article about professional master’s programs appeared in The Scientist on 3 April 2000 – Designer Degrees or Academic Alchemy? – Professional master’s programs attempt to teach skills for todays world…