…later based in part on mitochondrial DNA characters (Wada et al. 2003. Nature 426:278) Does this look like 1904? Honeybee mite Varroa jacobsoni described in 1904. In 1970’s, worldwide epidemic…
In 1982 Jesse translated from Italian into English about 200 pages from the unpublished diaries of Fey von Hassell, who had grown up in Rome in the 1930s as daughter…
Lifewatch has named Jesse Ausubel’s ‘terrible claw’ lobster as one of the ten astounding species of the last decade (2007-2017). Hooray for Dinochelus ausubeli! Thanks to the colleagues who made…
Genes, Germs and Medicine: The Life of Joshua Lederberg by U. of Toronto historian of science Jan Sapp has just been published. The book provides an engaging, balanced, and perceptive…
DNA-based species descriptions could enable a catalog of life on Earth. Without some sort of automated approach, I believe this goal is unattainable. Insects are a good place to start…
The French newspaper, Liberation, assembled a slide show of photos of plankton from the Bermuda triangle cruise of the Census of Marine Life by superb photographer and scientist Russell Hopcroft….
On August 24th Jesse Ausubel was interviewed by Russ Roberts on EconTalk, a weekly economics podcast. The hour-long interview, Agriculture, Technology, and the Return of Nature, can be heard here….
A press release summarizes the research of the Deep Carbon Observatory on methane and other hydrocarbons that are not fossil fuels but rather abiotic in origin. Congratulations to Giuseppe Etiope…
PHE Researcher Iddo Wernick published a review of ‘More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources?and What Happens Next’ by Andrew McAfee in…
The New York Times mentions the Sloan Foundation’s Limits to Knowledge program and quotes Jesse….