The standard animal barcode 648 bp of mitochondrial gene COI seems “just right” for delimiting most animal species. If it were “too short”, then closely-related species would not be resolved….
An Interview with Jesse about the origins and history of the Census of Marine Life appeared on pp. 6-7 of the December 2007 newsletter of the US National Committee for…
As part of our ongoing interest in diffusion of social phenomena, PHE researcher Iddo Wernick has published a paper, Jews in Time and Space, using the writing of books to…
PHE Researcher Iddo Wernick published a review of the recently released book A Question of Power: Why Electricity Will Remain the Essential Ingredient for Human Flourishing by Robert Bryce….
The horse-chestnut leaf miner moth Cameraria ohridella (link to Encyclopedia of Life species page), first described as an apparent endemic in Macedonia in 1984, has steadily expanded its range over…
Our paper “Towards Green Mobility” was discussed recently in the New York Time’s Dot Earth blog….
The Consortium for Ocean Leadership (COL) hosted a virtual symposium entitled Observing Life in a Changing Ocean: Exploring a ‘Census of Marine Life’ Today, on January 27, 2021. The Census…
Harvesting wild animals for sale as food is a large, mostly illegal business that threatens wild animal populations and puts humans at risk for exotic infections, witness the SARS outbreak…
What’s happened to the forests of the former Roman Empire? This and other mysteries are probed in Quandaries of Forest Area, Volume, Biomass, and Carbon Explored with the Forest Identity,…
“Rhythms of the Universe: An Evening with Mickey Hart and George Smoot†happened Sunday evening 29 September at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. The event was…