Keynan Workshop 2013
On 19-20 May 2013 in Jerusalem the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities conducted the first “Alexander Keynan Workshop on Science Policy†in appreciation of the wonderful career of Alex,…
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Big Data Mindset essay
PHE researcher Iddo Wernick published a short essay ‘The Big Data Mindset” in Issues in Science and Technology…
eDNA detects springtime arrival of fish in NY harbor
Results published April 12, 2017! Stoeckle MY, Soboleva L, Charlop-Powers Z. Aquatic environmental DNA detects seasonal fish abundance and habitat preference in an urban estuary. PLOS ONE 2017:e0175186 open access…
We post the paper
We post the paper “Restoring the Forests”, by David G. Victor and Jesse H. Ausubel, which recently appeared in the journal Foreign Affairs….
Galatée’s Oceans film
The masterpiece of Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud, Galatée’s Oceans film, opened in Paris 27 January 2010. We post five slides showing the posters for the film around the city…
Switch article in MV Gazette
At the new Martha’s Vineyard Film Center, Jesse hosted a well-attended viewing of the energy documentary Switch https://www.switchenergyproject.com on which he advised the film team of Scott Tinker and Harry…
Intellectual Migrations and Global Universities
On the 25th anniversary of publication, we post Jesse Ausubel’s 1992 essay “Intellectual Migrations and Global Universities,” which accurately foresaw saturation of domestic markets leading to aggressive globalization of USA…
Reading DNA labels on sponges
Sponges are difficult to identify and classify. Many sponges “have a depauperate suite of morphologic characters and/or are plagued by morphological homoplasies” and vary according to environmental conditions, challenging identification…
We post the paper
We post the paper The Forester’s Lever: Industrial Ecology and Wood Products, which appeared recently in the Journal of Forestry. We post the talk The Census of Marine Life and…
Mapping routes for DNA barcoding land plants
Land plants challenge standardized DNA-based identification. Different groups of land plants are deeply divergent at the DNA level, yet there are relatively few sequence differences among closely-related species. Deep divergences…