Two new old papers
We posted two of our older papers, Rails and Snails and the Debate over Goals for Science and Graphical Representations of World Population Growth…
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Jesse on the Indian Blackout
The Indian electricity blackouts of 30-31 July 2012 affected more than 600 million people. A National Public Radio story by correspondent Richard Harris quotes Jesse Ausubel on the increasing need…
Cool new barcode app
…from University of Guelph, Canada and Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France report on “molecular analysis of parasitoid linkages (MAPL)”. As background, parasitoid insects–many or most are wasps (order…
The spider and the fly: learning about applying COI to species identification
…Syst Biol 55:715 2006 researchers from National University of Singapore examine COI sequences deposited in GenBank from Diptera (flies, mosquitos, and gnats). They found 449 of the 150,000 known species…
Iddo and colleagues publish paper on better global forest management to sequester carbon
…Forest Ecology and management discusses the advantages of better management of existing global forests to sequester carbon drawing on National Forest Inventory data from Scandinavian forests over the period 1960-2017….
Alvin M. Weinberg
…“The Longevity of Infrastructure” that appeared in Cities and Their Vital Systems. In 2003, Jesse was honored to present the 9th annual Alvin Weinberg lecture at Oak Ridge National Lab….
Because the Brain Does Not Change, Technology Must
…Not Change, Technology Must.” We also newly post the 1995 paper, National Materials Metrics for Industrial Ecology, recently republished in the 1999 boook, Measures of Environmental Performance and Ecosystem Condition….
Jesse interviewed at Energy Forum in Washington DC
Mark Mills’s new National Center for Energy Analytics launched publicly with an Energy Future Forum organized jointly with RealClearEnergy. The meeting included a half-hour interview with Jesse Ausubel conducted by…
DNA-assisted discovery of new leopard in Borneo worries some taxonomists
…the distinct populations we call species. In Frontiers Zool 29 May 2007, researchers from University of Wurzburg, US National Cancer Institute, and Arizona State University report on mitochondrial DNA and…
Passing of Robert A. Frosch
…Climate Research Board, and we cooperated for the next 40 years. Bob chaired the National Academy of Engineering study group that produced the 1989 book Technology and Environment with the…