Reviews of The Seasons
Galatee’s The Seasons, on which Jesse Ausubel served as a science advisor, earns good reviews. Review: The Nature Documentary ‘Seasons’ Looks at Land Animals New York Times ‘Seasons’ takes a…
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Learning how to apply DNA barcoding to species discovery
In 7 June 2006 Systematics and Biodiversity Andrew Brower examines application of DNA barcodes to identifying and defining new species. His Perspective piece “Problems with DNA barcodes for species delimitation:…
A Society that reuses almost everything.
Our program was recently mentioned, and Jesse quoted, in the November 10, 1997 issue of Business Week (page 106 hardcopy). If you haven’t notice, we added some JavaScript to “light…
China Maglev Progress
While we prefer lateral suspension approach to the German approach, we are pleased to observe China speeding along the learning curve for maglev technology….
Cool new barcode app
The US Global Positioning System (GPS), consisting of 24 to 32 satellites in medium earth orbit, cost $32 billion to develop and is supported by an annual budget of $1…
Undiscovered species lurking in museum drawers
Four whales stranded on the coast of California in the 1970s were identified as Hector’s beaked whale Mesoplodon hectori (Mead 1981 J Mammalogy 62:430). 20 years later mitochondrial DNA analysis…
Our paper on “Working
Our paper on “Working Less and Living Longer: Long-term Trends in Working Time and Time Budgets” receives a Citation of Excellence from ANBAR, an on-line service that “reviews top journals…
Vern Ruttan Article
Jesse’s comment about Vern Ruttan’s article on technologies that might transform the economy appeared in the spring issue of the journal Issues in Science and Technology….
Living Lab radio
WGBH’s Living Lab radio program hosted by Heather Goldstone interviewed Jesse Ausubel for 30 minutes about his views on the global environment. The radio interview was stimulated by Jesse’s lecture…
Grapefruit-sized DNA sequencer in development
With funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, researchers at Reveo, Inc. and the University of Washington are collaborating on developing a grapefruit-sized sequencer. It uses electronic and photonic…