E O Wilson’s Encyclopedia of Life

For the past year Jesse has chaired a small group to help realize the vision of an on-line Encyclopedia of Life with a web page for every species proposed by…

Food Fraud – Washington Post

…can do it, it moves out of the research application to something you can do regularly.”  The WP article was widely reported and discussed in food-related blogs, and prompted…

4th Int’l Barcode of Life Conference

For the 4th International Barcode of Life conference beginning 29 November in Adelaide, Australia, Mark Stoeckle led the preparation of the 2011 DNA Barcoding Highlights report while Jesse worked with…

Oleg Vasiliev in memoriam

Oleg Vasiliev, distinguished hydrologist and chief of the Resources and Environment group for whom Jesse Ausubel worked 1979-1980 at IIASA, passed away 7 March 2017. Jesse offers a Memorial Tribute…

Tommy Gold’s url

We were troubled to find that Tommy Gold’s pages have disappeared from the Cornell University website but delighted to find they have been saved by the Wayback Machine of the…

Finish for trains and start for maglevs?

The French “train a grand vitesse” (TGV) attained a record speed for a train on wheels of 568 km/hr on 31 March 2007. The history of technology shows that when…