Dis the Threat Industry

JH Ausubel. Technological Forecasting and Society Change 62 (2): 119–120 1999

The CIA for decades overstated the size of the Soviet economy and thus its threat to the USA. Worldwatchers have yearly forecast a food crisis from the exhaustion of soil…

The Forester’s Lever: Industrial Ecology and Wood Products

IK Wernick, PE Waggoner, JH Ausubel. Journal of Forestry 98 (10): 8–14 2000

…On industry-owned forests, yields exceed by half those on national forests and private nonindustrial land (Haynes 1990 Powell et al. 1993). Nationally, although the forest industry owns only about one-seventh…

Leonardo DNA project

…sponsored by Eugenio Giani, President of the Regional Council of Tuscany. Jesse’s introductory essay is here. The press release earned wide attention, for example, BBC radio: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03tb7ht Gizmodo, USA The…

Death and the Human Environment: The United States in the 20th Century [PDF]

JH Ausubel, PS Meyer, IK Wernick. Technology in Society 23 (2): 131–146 2001

…are assigned a “basic cause” through the use of the “Rules for the Selection of Basic Cause” stated in the Ninth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases. Geneva: World

Barcode Coverage

The big London DNA barcoding jamboree earned extensive press coverage, ranging from BBC and CNN to Science. https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/Marshall2005.pdf…

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…as States and also international organizations. Seventeen reports, including the concluding report, can be accessed here. Jesse Ausubel served as Director of Studies for the Commission. IIASA The International Institute…

Natural Restoration Promised if Humans Embrace Technology

…under way,” he told delegates at the Global Change Open Science Conference, organized by the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme. The IGBP comes under the auspices of the International Council for Science…

CoML on CNN

The Census of Marine Life, which Jesse has helped develop, is growing fast. The Associated Press has just issued a lively account of some of the nascent field projects….

Rare mineral species

…People enjoy the news – covered in at least 51 countries and 19 languages. BBC Earth’s rarest minerals catalogued https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35569659 DPA / APA (newswires, Germany, Austria) Weniger als ein Würfel…