Poisonous fish revealed
…approximately 1700 and 660 names, respectively. And yet DNA surveys regularly turn up fish in the marketplace that are not on any regulatory list, as well as mislabeling of those…
…approximately 1700 and 660 names, respectively. And yet DNA surveys regularly turn up fish in the marketplace that are not on any regulatory list, as well as mislabeling of those…
In response to requests for the pie charts from our paper Restoring the Forests (Foreign Affairs, 2000), we post here two scanned pdfs showing the past and prospective changes in…
Our long-standing interest in science and diplomacy bears fruit in the growing use of Asi Burak’s interactive video game Peacemaker, supported by the Richard Lounsbery Foundation. The Peres Center for…
On November 5 Iddo Wernick and Jesse Ausubel participated together with colleagues from the Breakthrough Institute in the seminar at Resources for the Future (RFF) in Washington DC titled Making…
See The Many Problems with Batteries posted at Real Clear Energy and The Bondage of Data Tyranny posted at Issues in Science and Technology…
In 2 june 2009 Proc Natl Acad Sci USA researchers from 5 American universities report on convergent molecular evolution among agamid lizards and snakes. In constructing a nuclear and mitochondrial…
On 25 April Jesse participated in a symposium on Priorities in the Geosciences at the University of Texas, Austin and spoke on “Decarbonization: The Next 100 Years“….
In 16 june 2009 BMC Bioinformatics researchers from University of Guelph report on web platform for DNA barcode analysis, www.iBarcode.org. The site works with aligned barcode files in standard .fas…
A “tag sequencing” approach analogous to mtCOI sequencing for barcoding multicellular organisms reveals vast numbers of very rare, highly divergent, deep sea microbes. In August 2006 PNAS (Sogin et al…
Elated by progress of the Census of Marine Life shared at the Auckland All-Program meeting 14-16 November 2007, we recall and post Sylvia Earle’s delightful poem written in October 2003…