Barcoding in Biology Textbook

Kate Stoeckle’s 2008 high school DNA barcoding project, dubbed “Sushi-gate“, is featured in the latest edition of McGraw-Hill textbook, Biology. Here is the excerpt from the book….

LogletLab 4

…logistic function as well as a range of sigmoidal functions, S-curves. This decomposition is roughly analogous to wavelet analysis, popular for signal processing and compression. This latest version of our…

EMBO Biodiversity conference

The videos of the talks of the EMBO/EMBL conference on Biodiversity and Society held 9-10 November 2012 in Heidelberg are now on-line, including Jesse Ausubel’s talk on Macroscopes for Biodiversity….

CoML in Cambridge

…Life. The 17MB pdf posted here includes all the slides but not the animations or videos. Thanks to the Class of 1973 for a wonderful opportunity to share the Census!…

Bi-Logistic Growth

PS Meyer. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 47: 89–102 1994

…use. The Bi-logistic model predicts that we are at 90% of saturation of the latest pulse. Processes often expire around 90%, though sometimes processes overshoot. The residuals show the extraordinary,…

The Environment for Future Business

JH Ausubel. Pollution Prevention Review 8 (1): 39–52 1998 This article has been republished in the journal Environmental Regulation and Permitting 9(2):251-62, 1999.

…directly for the fuelwood, and indirectly from the land needed for hay. Coal had a long run at the top, notwithstanding its devastating effects on miners’ lungs and lives, urban…

Energy and Environment: The Light Path

JH Ausubel. Energy Systems and Policy 15: 181–188 1991

…top of the energy heap. It ruled, notwithstanding its devastating effects on miners’ lungs and lives, the urban air, and the land from which it came; but about 1900 the…