National Cockroach Project
The DNAHouse project alerted us to the value of barcoding a New York City cockroach…and now Mark Stoeckle announces the initiation of the National Cockroach Project. Jeanne Garbarino posts a…
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Nature Rebounds
Jesse Ausubel’s 55-minute talk (plus 30 minutes of Q&A), Nature Rebounds, to the Long Now Foundation on 13 January 2015 at the San Francisco Jazz Center is on-line. Thanks to…
Glasgow Cities lecture
Glasgow University will host a lecture by Jesse Ausubel Monday 17 April on The Nature of the City as part of a workshop, “Future cities: Do cities have limits?” Here…
Recognizing invasive insects threatening forests
In the late 1860’s, a French entomologist, Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, living in Medford, Massachusetts, imported gypsy moths (Lymantria dispar) which he hoped to hybridize with domesticated Asian silkworms (Bombyx mori),…
DNA reveals panoply of tiny fish
Starksia is a genus of tiny (most less than 2 cm) blennoid fishes found in rocky inshore areas and coral reefs along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North and…
Energy Xchange radio interview
The Energy Xchange, an independent producer of podcasts, recorded a 1-hour conversation on energy of Scott W. Tinker – director, Bureau of Economic Geology,University of Texas at Austin; Steven E….
Visualizing birds: Part 2. Distant clusters, unfinished taxonomy
In 1911, Rutherford proposed correctly that essentially all the mass of an atom is concentrated in a tiny “central charge” (what we now call the nucleus) and that the rest…
Arthur L. Singer, Jr. “Easy to Forget, and So Hard to Remember”
Arthur L. Singer, Jr., allows us the honor to post his 90-page “East to Forget, and So Hard to Remember,” covering his career at MIT, the Carnegie and Sloan Foundations…
Visualizing birds: Part 3. DNA barcode’s-eye view of taxonomic practice
Who decides what is a species and how do they do so? The primary source of information related to species is the peer-reviewed scientific literature, with standards of evidence presumably…
Andy Marshall Foundation seminar on experimentation, intellectual courage and mentorship
For its 2021 Annual Review, the Andrew W. Marshall Foundation presented an hour-long seminar in which Jesse Ausubel speaks briefly on experimentation, Melissa Flagg on intellectual courage, and Dan Patt…