Part stands for the whole
A synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole, or the whole stands for a part. Taking the first, we might consider a DNA…
A synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole, or the whole stands for a part. Taking the first, we might consider a DNA…
Virtual U released! University management goes high tech. Culminating 5 years of work, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Jackson Hole Higher Education Group, and Enlight Software announce the release…
Jesse Ausubel had the honor in October 2015 to present the Michelson Lecture at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis. Thanks Captain and Professor Emil Petruncio! We now post…
The ruckus continues over Jesse’s Millennial energy essay, with The Industrial Physicist running several letters about it and Jesse’s replies in its April and June issues, and more to come…
What limits Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) to its current range? JEV is a mosquito-transmitted flavivirus related to yellow fever and West Nile viruses that causes approximately 40,000 human cases annually…
New essay on the Great Reversal of the destruction of nature on-line….
On 7 July 2014 Jesse Ausubel was interviewed by Heather Goldstone in her public radio program “Living Lab.” A short article describes the interview, which focused on questions of land…
RealClearScience publishes Jesse Ausubel’s short essay “We must make nature worthless,” based on remarks he prepared for a 6 November 2014 seminar at Resources for the Future….
Paul De Barro, CSIRO, Australia, recently posed the question “What is the expected level of mitochondrial variation within species?” The answer may be “almost none”. Results so far with DNA…
The Department of Commerce has established a new Panel on Ocean Exploration on which Jesse is serving. The work of the panel is described at https://oceanpanel.nos.noaa.gov….