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….
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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…
Nature of the City
We post the polished text of Jesse Ausubel’s 2016 lecture on The Nature of the City as well as the video. For more information see What’s New entries from 19…
DNA helps identify African agricultural pests
Among the 35,000 known species of noctuid moths, a number are destructive agricultural pests, including for example Corn earworm Helicoverpa zea and Tobacco budworm Heliothis virescens. Accurate identification is the…
Ocean Exploration in Caribbean
Oceanography magazine published its Supplement covering the 2013 field season of the Exploration Vessel Nautilus in the Caribbean. Jesse Ausubel participated in the field season and is a co-author of…
Precision agriculture in Wall Street Journal
Robert Paarlberg’s article “The Environmental Upside of Modern Farming” cites our work about land-sparing. Rob has just published a new book Resetting the Table: Straight Talk About the Food We…
Iddo on resource demands of renewables
PHE senior research associate Iddo Wernick publishes an op-ed in RealClear Science: Green Technologies Have a Glaring Problem of Scale…
Don’t barcode alone
Barcoding is a standardized approach to DNA-based species identification. The essence of standardization is an agreement among researchers and practitioners to rely on one or a few defined gene region(s)….
Small houses on big lots
Most animal species correspond to tight clusters of mtDNA distinct from those closely-related species. In real estate terms, most species are small houses on big lots. Small houses because intraspecific…