Long Now Foundation January 2015
The Long Now Foundation in San Francisco will host a lecture by Jesse Ausubel, “Nature is Rebounding: Land- and Ocean-sparing through Concentrating Human Activities,” Tuesday 13 January 2015 at the…
The Long Now Foundation in San Francisco will host a lecture by Jesse Ausubel, “Nature is Rebounding: Land- and Ocean-sparing through Concentrating Human Activities,” Tuesday 13 January 2015 at the…
…as a single species Aptostichus atomarius. According to Bond and Stockman, “the genus Aptostichus is species rich, consisting of 30+ species (most undescribed) found predominantly throughout southern California.” I note…
PHE Guest Investigator has published open access an insightful essay Forensics, Genius, and Enthusiasm in the Genetics of Leonardo da Vinci as part of the Leonardo Da Vinci DNA Project….
Economics columnist Ronald Bailey runs an on-line essay about ecological overshoot that draws on PHE research: https://reason.com/rb/rb062602.shtml…
As of October 11, 2008 researchers have deposited 14,594 DNA barcodes in BOLD representing 2,586 avian species, 26% of world’s 9,933 birds. You can browse taxonomic coverage to date at…
From time to time colleagues inquiry about the H:C ratio of wood. Click here for the explanation: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/Wood_HC_Ratio.pdf We notice that an older (1993) paper has been scanned: “Flat Organizations…
Mark Stoeckle and Cameron Coffran have posted the software for the indicator vector/Klee method to analyze and display large sets of aligned sequences–it readily displays patterns among >10K sequences in…
With maximum appreciation for their contributions, we have included Terry Collins and Dale Langford in our list of PHE alumni and external affiliates. Dale Langford has edited almost every publication…
Robert Koch (1842-1910), father of medical microbiology, isolated agents of mankind’s major plagues: Vibrio cholera, Bacillus anthracis (anthrax and bubonic plague), and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. He laid down four conditions, “Koch’s…
The Trinity School TeaBOL project is featured in cover article for December/January issue of The Helix, an Australian science magazine for children 10+…