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…

Nigeria Barcoding

Bravo to David Schindel and the Consortium for the Barcode of Life for spurring further application of DNA barcoding to reduce trade in endangered species with an initiative in Nigeria….

Galatee Seasons film segment

The new film of Jacques Perrin and Galatee Productions, The Seasons, is scheduled for release 27 January 2016. A 1-minute promotional segment is available at https://vimeo.com/133827355 See also https://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=228541.html The

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…

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….

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….