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….
…Committee, National Research Council, Washington DC , 1983. Toward an International Geosphere-Biosphere Program: A Study of Global Change, National Research Council, Washington DC , 1983. “Changing Climate†was the first…
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…
…small creatures that inhabit leaf litter. I look forward to learning more about whether these spiders are exceptions to the rule that deep mtDNA divergences signal species boundaries in animals….
The New York Times created an interactive game “name the scientist†in which Jesse Ausubel is the wrong answer to the 4th question. Richard Dawkins is the right answer. Still…
The Breakthrough Institute has posted Jesse Ausubel’s lecture “Cars and Civilization” in a linear, scrollable layout. This version may be easier to read on some devices, though less attractive to…
PHE’s acoustic wizard, Perrin Meyer, and Meyer Sound created a scientific experience at ?#?BurningMan2015?. Bay Area artist Jon Sarriugarte and sound designer Kyrsten Mate created a rocket launch experience “Project…
Nature has assembled a collection of papers originating under the auspices of the just-concluded ten-year Deep Carbon Observatory project, sponsored by the Sloan Foundation. An interview with two of the…
We post the article The Evolution of Transport, which appeared in this months issue of the magazine, The Industrial Physicist….