Birds are relatively large, conspicuous, vocal, and mostly diurnal creatures, making it relatively easy for humans to tell apart. Even so, new species continue to be discovered; these usually represent…
We post the paper “Restoring the Forests”, by David G. Victor and Jesse H. Ausubel, which recently appeared in the journal Foreign Affairs….
The masterpiece of Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud, Galatée’s Oceans film, opened in Paris 27 January 2010. We post five slides showing the posters for the film around the city…
At the new Martha’s Vineyard Film Center, Jesse hosted a well-attended viewing of the energy documentary Switch https://www.switchenergyproject.com on which he advised the film team of Scott Tinker and Harry…
On the 25th anniversary of publication, we post Jesse Ausubel’s 1992 essay “Intellectual Migrations and Global Universities,” which accurately foresaw saturation of domestic markets leading to aggressive globalization of USA…
Sponges are difficult to identify and classify. Many sponges “have a depauperate suite of morphologic characters and/or are plagued by morphological homoplasies” and vary according to environmental conditions, challenging identification…
We post the paper The Forester’s Lever: Industrial Ecology and Wood Products, which appeared recently in the Journal of Forestry. We post the talk The Census of Marine Life and…
Land plants challenge standardized DNA-based identification. Different groups of land plants are deeply divergent at the DNA level, yet there are relatively few sequence differences among closely-related species. Deep divergences…
Great scientist and friend Joshua Lederberg passed away 2 February 2008. Josh recruited Jesse to The Rockefeller University in 1984, promoted him in 1989, and supported the formation of the…
The Italian website “Stasera leggiamo” (This evening let’s read) runs a favorable review of Jesse’s autobiography, “La liberazione dell’ ambiente”…