Passing of Janusz Kindler

Polish water resources engineer Janusz Kindler passed away on 8 December 2020 in Warsaw at the age of 86. Janusz served as chief of the Resources and Environment group at…

We post the papers: Five

We post the papers: Five Worthy Ways To Spend Large Amounts of Money for Research on Environment and Resources Jesse H. Ausubel The Bridge 29(3):4-16, Fall 1999. Dis The Threat…

Modern India

A pair of articles from the same day’s newspaper about hospitality for elephants and landing an Indian on the moon show the beautiful span of contemporary India, which Jesse enjoyed…

DNA Barcodes book

Jesse drafted a foreword, The Beep of the Barcode of Life, for the forthcoming book about DNA barcodes of John Kress and David Erickson. The final version will differ a…

Peak Farmland and Potatoes

We post Peak Farmland and Potatoes, Jesse Ausubel’s Plenary address to the 2014 Potato Business Summit of the United Potato Growers of America, San Antonio, 8 January 2014….

European Barcode Conference

With about 130 other experts from 28 countries, Mark Stoeckle and Jesse Ausubel attended the European Consortium for the Barcode of Life (ECBOL), Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, and

100 million years without sex: COI clustering in bdelloid rotifers challenges theories of how species are formed and maintained

…Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew analyze morphometric and molecular data of a comprehensive international sampling of Rotaria sp. bdelloid rotifers. All 9 morphologically defined taxonomic species form monophyletic clades in genetic…