Passing of Robert A. Frosch
Our great friend and colleague Robert A. Frosch passed away 30 December 2020 at age 92. Jesse Ausubel met Bob in November 1977 at the first meeting of the NASEM…
Our great friend and colleague Robert A. Frosch passed away 30 December 2020 at age 92. Jesse Ausubel met Bob in November 1977 at the first meeting of the NASEM…
Jesse Ausubel will be honored with the 2022 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest. This award is presented annually by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego…
Our simulation game of the US university, Virtual U, is one of ten finalists for best game of the year 2000 at the upcoming Independent Games Festival! Can we outsmart…
In 2014, Di Renzo published in Italian Jesse Ausubel’s autobiography La liberazione dell’ambiente (autobiography) 112 pp. We now post an English translation as The Liberation of the Environment. The autobiography…
Science and environment report Alice Hutton has written an exceptionally lively and informative article for the UK Guardian newspaper about the International Quiet Ocean Experiment, a program on which we…
Lumpsuckers are globular, scaleless marine fish with bony tubercles on head and body, and a ventral sucking disc, derived from specialized pelvic fins, which allows them to adhere to environmental…
An adaptation of Jesse’s keynote address to the fall 2000 Business Roundtable’s National Summit on Technology and Climate Change appears in the January-February issue of The Electricity Journal….
Thanks to scanning by Google Books, we post two vintage reports for which Jesse early in his career was the lead scribe: Changing Climate, Report of the Carbon Dioxide Assessment…
A pair of excellent books about the Vienna Circle of philosophers have recently appeared: Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of…
…between species, and identify the shared characters that reflect evolutionary ancestry. These tasks require highly-specialized sets of knowledge and skill for each animal and plant group. One result is that…