In Vitro Protein Production
Andrew Revkin of the New York Times posts a blog Dot Earth: Can people Have Meat and a planet, Too? that refers to our ideas and those of our mentor…
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Chekhov anticipates environmental concerns
Russian writer Anton Chekhov anticipated 21st century environmental concerns about forests and climate (in an exchange in the first act) Â of his 1899 play Uncle Vanya….
New scientific newsstand for marine barcoders
…look forward to seeing how this scientific “newsstand” develops. In June, PLoS ONE received an impact rating of 4.351, placing it in the top 25% percentile of biology journals, making…
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….
Naming names faster
Species are the units of biodiversity. Discontinuities in biological variation sort organisms into discrete groups that we recognize as species, and so gathering data on differences among organisms is the…
Vote for Encyclopedia of Life Video
The short video about the Encyclopedia of Life has been nominated for a Webby Prize. Please considering voting for it!…
Reality of German Renewables
We admire everything that Vaclav Smil writes, for both his insights and lively style.  This essay, How Green Is Europe?, exemplifies the bracing cold shower one receives from reading…
Environmental Populism
On September 23, 2019 PHE Senior Research Associate Iddo Wernick delivered at talk on ‘Environmentalism and Populism‘ at at meeting of the Breakthrough Institute in Middleburg, Virginia….
Naming names faster (addendum)
In yesterday’s post I placed “integrative taxonomy” on a spectrum with morphologic taxonomy at one end and “DNA taxonomy” as applied to eubacteria/archaebacteria at the other. Mehrdad Hajibabaei pointed out…
New Scientist Interview
The New Scientist weekly magazine 16 June 2010 publishes a short interview with Jesse about the Census of Marine Life and ideas for the international Quiet Ocean and Dark Sky…