From time to time
From time to time colleagues inquiry about the H:C ratio of wood. Click here for the explanation: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/Wood_HC_Ratio.pdf We notice that an older (1993) paper has been scanned: “Flat Organizations…
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Indicator Vector (Klee Diagram) software
Mark Stoeckle and Cameron Coffran have posted the software for the indicator vector/Klee method to analyze and display large sets of aligned sequences–it readily displays patterns among >10K sequences in…
Genetics is essential framework for microbiology, eukaryotes next?
Robert Koch (1842-1910), father of medical microbiology, isolated agents of mankind’s major plagues: Vibrio cholera, Bacillus anthracis (anthrax and bubonic plague), and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. He laid down four conditions, “Koch’s…
Trinity School TeaBOL
The Trinity School TeaBOL project is featured in cover article for December/January issue of The Helix, an Australian science magazine for children 10+…
What’s in a name?
In 2003, Paul Hebert and colleagues proposed a universal identification system employing short DNA sequences as identifiers for animal and plant species. Inspired by the Universal Product Code labels that…
We post an essay
We post an essay on professional master’s degrees in sciences by Jesse and education expert Sheila Tobias: https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/AusubelTobias.pdf…
Marine Plastics keynote talk
Jesse Ausubel gave the opening talk on “A Cleaner Ocean” to the conference From Research to Action: Responding to Plastic Pollution through Science organized by the Embassy of France Office…
Making sense of Mexican microcrustaceans
In Hidrobiologica March 2008 researchers from El Colegia de la Frontera Sur, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa, Mexico, describe a new species of Cladocera from temporary pools in a semi-desert region….
Economist article, “Working miracles”
The Economist magazine has an article in the current survey on the environment that draws heavily from our research and our friends at IIASA: “Working miracles: Can technology save the…
Chauncey Starr
Chauncey Starr, who helped launch the Program for the Human Environment, passed away on 18 April 2007, shortly after his 95th birthday celebration. In fond memory of Chauncey, we post…