NAP books from 1983 (Thanks, Google).

Thanks to scanning by Google Books, we post two vintage reports for which Jesse early in his career was the lead scribe: Changing Climate, Report of the Carbon Dioxide Assessment…

Breakthrough publishes Cars & Civilization

The Breakthrough Institute has posted Jesse Ausubel’s lecture “Cars and Civilization” in a linear, scrollable layout. This version may be easier to read on some devices, though less attractive to…

Perrin Meyer & Meyer Sound at Burning Man

PHE’s acoustic wizard, Perrin Meyer, and Meyer Sound created a scientific experience at ?#?BurningMan2015?. Bay Area artist Jon Sarriugarte and sound designer Kyrsten Mate created a rocket launch experience “Project…

A Decade of Deep Carbon Research

Nature has assembled a collection of papers originating under the auspices of the just-concluded ten-year Deep Carbon Observatory project, sponsored by the Sloan Foundation. An interview with two of the

We post the article

We post the article The Evolution of Transport, which appeared in this months issue of the magazine, The Industrial Physicist….

Sushi-gate in SOI Magazine

PHE-sponsored “Sushi-gate” investigation is featured in April 2009 Scripps Oceanographic Institute Magazine. The article, which describes work done by FISHBOL researchers Phil Hastings and Ron Burton, quotes PHE’s Mark Stoeckle…

SSC description

Michael Ojovan, now at Imperial College (London), and Russian colleagues have published an excellent compact description of self-sinking capsules for disposal of hazardous waste and probing the deep Earth. See…

We post the paper

We post the paper Death and the Human Environment, which appeared this month in the journal Technology in Society….