Foreword for book on Squat Lobsters
…sustaining us. Anyone reading this masterwork will come to know that squat lobsters are not only Galatheoids and Chyrostolids, they are rubies and sapphires, set here in a scientific crown…
…sustaining us. Anyone reading this masterwork will come to know that squat lobsters are not only Galatheoids and Chyrostolids, they are rubies and sapphires, set here in a scientific crown…
National Geographic’s weekly tv show Wild Chronicles featured the Census of Marine Life, including a few comments from Jesse….
What fish is that you are eating? This question has many possible answers. Unlike meats, which are derived from a handful of species, most of which are farmed, there are…
In response to requests for the pie charts from our paper Restoring the Forests (Foreign Affairs, 2000), we post here two scanned pdfs showing the past and prospective changes in…
Our long-standing interest in science and diplomacy bears fruit in the growing use of Asi Burak’s interactive video game Peacemaker, supported by the Richard Lounsbery Foundation. The Peres Center for…
…Nature Useless: Relative Dematerialization & Absolute Peaks. We also post Jesse’s brief (3-page) prepared remarks, On Useless Nature, subsequently published in RealClearScience (18 Sept 2015). Some coverage at https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-humans-and-nature-co-exist/ https://reason.com/archives/2014/11/10/making-nature-useless…
See The Many Problems with Batteries posted at Real Clear Energy and The Bondage of Data Tyranny posted at Issues in Science and Technology…
On 25 April Jesse participated in a symposium on Priorities in the Geosciences at the University of Texas, Austin and spoke on “Decarbonization: The Next 100 Years“….
In 16 june 2009 BMC Bioinformatics researchers from University of Guelph report on web platform for DNA barcode analysis, www.iBarcode.org. The site works with aligned barcode files in standard .fas…
A “tag sequencing” approach analogous to mtCOI sequencing for barcoding multicellular organisms reveals vast numbers of very rare, highly divergent, deep sea microbes. In August 2006 PNAS (Sogin et al…