…world enter the marketplace, often as filets or steaks lacking distinguishing external features. In October 2011, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) formally adopted DNA barcoding for seafood identification, the…
Zoonotic viruses are like introduced species–most perish, a few cause localized outbreaks, and a tiny fraction spread widely. Unfortunately, the tiny fraction have ruinous potential. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a…
Jesse’s essay “Will the Rest of the World Live Like America?” appears in Technology in Society’s 25th anniversary issue. https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/LiveLikeAmerica.pdf…
…honorary doctorate on Jesse Ausubel. Jesse thanks 35 years of wonderful colleagues at the NAS/NAE, IIASA, Rockefeller, Sloan, and around the world for the collaborative works that St. Andrews recognizes….
Scott Tinker and Harry Lynch have made the documentary film ever about the world energy system, Switch. Jesse Ausubel was privileged to advise a bit on the film. The excellent…
The essay Cars and Civilization by Jesse Ausubel has been translated into German by Thilo Spahl and appears (with fewer illustrations) in Thilo’s 2018 book Around the World in 80…
Bird barcodes fly in. So far, researchers have deposited 3308 avian COI barcodes from about 800 species, which represents 8% of world birds, to the Barcode of Life Database (BOLD)…
…Finning Prohibition Act of 2000 made this practice illegal in all U.S. waters, finning remains legal in most parts of the world.” In The USA regulations prohibit possession of any…
…The tutorial, Defining and Using the Forest Identity, includes some new analyses (for example, about Mediterranean forests), some new Forest Identity slides showing the power of the Forest Identity, and…
The new journal based in China, The Innovation, has published the Thaler-Ausubel-Stoeckle paper on Human and domesticated animal environmental DNA as bioassays of the Anthropocene in their “Out of the…