Resources are Elastic

JH Ausubel. Earth Matters 46–47 2000 a magazine published by the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Winter 1999/2000. This issue contains many of the speeches that were presented at the "State of The Planet" conference held at Columbia in the Fall of 1999.

…as when bacteria produce a new enzyme to dismantle a sleepy component of their broth, then we face a problem. New growth pulses suddenly pop up, growing from the prior….

Barcode of Life site updates

We have updated and reorganized our webpages on DNA, Taxonomy, and the Barcode of Life (https://phe.rockefeller.edu/BarcodeConference/) to keep pace with this rapidly progressing field. Among other exciting developments, the Smithsonian…

“Son et lumiere” – Exciting Updates

A slightly revised version of Jesse’s May 2009 Dalhousie University Commencement Address, Son et lumiere, is published on 23 November 2009 by the monthly science magazine, SEED, as Broadening the

International Conflicts over Environment: Scientist’s Roles and Opportunities

JH Ausubel. Scientific Cooperation, State Conflict: The Role of Scientists in Mitigating International Discord, "Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences" 866: 253–258 1998

This paper first appeared in: Scientific Cooperation, State Conflict: The Role of Scientists in Mitigating International Discord, A. L. de Cerreno and A. Keynan, eds, Annals of the New York Academy…

Bi-Logistic Growth

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

…Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 1991. Grübler, A., The Rise and Fall of Infrastructures, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 1990. Oliver, R. M., Saturation Models: A Brief Survey and Critique, Journal of…

Diffusion of Social Phenomena

…processes follow a sequence of replacements or substitutions: new ideas for old, new labor patterns for old, new technologies for old. The diffusion of new technologies follows common patterns that…