Biggest tree so far
Phylogenetic tree-building programs are the workhorses of evolutionary analysis. Thus it might be surprising that, given there are at least 1.7 million named species of plants and animals, output trees…
Phylogenetic tree-building programs are the workhorses of evolutionary analysis. Thus it might be surprising that, given there are at least 1.7 million named species of plants and animals, output trees…
We welcome Mark Stoeckle, MD as a Guest Investigator to the Program for the Human Environment. Dr. Stoeckle is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and is…
We welcome our new Research Assistant Veselin Kostov!…
New York Times columnist John Tierney publishes an article “Use Energy, Get Rich and Save the Planetâ€Â about the PHE work on whether Richer is Greener….
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…