Michael Shellenberger’s new book
We are long-time admirers of Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, who co-founded The Breakthrough Institute in 2003. TBI award Jesse Ausubel its annual prize in 2014, and Iddo Wernick has…
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New RU Barcode of Life home page
Just posted, a freshly minted home page for Barcode of Life activities at Program for the Human Environment, The Rockefeller University, with expanded links to partners and downloadable pdfs and…
New places to find DNA
In 29 july 2008 Fish Biology scientists from Macquarie University, Sydney describe successful recovery of mitochondrial DNA from contemporary and historical shark teeth and jaws. After developing the method on…
DNA barcoding effectiveness supports a new view of how evolution works
…this predicted relationship, deviations are subsumed under the rubric of “effective population size” and accounted for by ad hoc modifications to the theory, which is assumed operative. Here we harness…
New Yates, Stoeckle & Co paper relating eDNA production to surface area of organisms
The journal Environmental DNA publishes open access “Interspecific allometric scaling in eDNA production among northwestern Atlantic bony fishes reflects physiological allometric scaling” by Matthew C. Yates, Taylor M. Wilcox, M. Y. Stoeckle, and…
Jesse quoted on new way to lift yields
Doomslayer, Marian Tupy’s newsletter at Human Progress, features polyploidy and Ohalo Genetics in its 26 May post, and includes a comment from Jesse Ausubel about the good prospects for crop…
New translation of classic Mendeleev article on origins of petroleum
…Veselin Kostov’s translation of this chapter together with a list of references on the abiogenic theory of petroleum origin (wherever our limited knowledge of Russian interrupted the continuous flow of…
New scientific newsstand for marine barcoders
…look forward to seeing how this scientific “newsstand” develops. In June, PLoS ONE received an impact rating of 4.351, placing it in the top 25% percentile of biology journals, making…
New software for visualizing the whole animal kingdom
Swiss bioinformatics wizard Wandrille Duchemin and PHE Guest Investigator David Thaler publish PyKleeBarcode: Enabling representation of the whole animal kingdom in information space in PLoS One. The computational advances in…
CoML-New Species in Australia
Our Census of Marine Life colleagues exploring Australia ’s reefs have discovered hundreds of undescribed corals and other species, including a little animal that eats the tongues of fish. Browse…