Naming names faster
…necessary first step in understanding the diversity of life. Here DNA has singular value–all organisms have DNA and some genetic loci are widely-shared, enabling direct comparisons across the diversity of…
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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…
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
…may then be solutions for conditions in Africa where there is an acute shortage of experts and rearing facilities to keep field-collected insects alive until emergence of adults for morphological…
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…