…Google search with “new species” and “dna” turns up dozens of reports in which DNA sequence differences are the first and strongest evidence for cryptic species, including the 2 new…
…indifference” (Great 15-year project to decipher genes stirs opposition. New York Times, June 5, 1990). The Times article details some of the initial negative reactions: “Even if scientists manage to…
…The 12-page illustrated quarterly iBOL newsletter has a promising diversity of news. To take one example, I learned that some members of the North American Moth Photographers Group (MPG) are…
…of the Encylopedia of Life at Rockefeller University in New York City. “I’m not sure about the volume but … they wouldn’t all want the same conditions in their cabins,”…
New York Times environment reporter Andrew Revkin has launched a new “dot earth” blot with an entry about population that draws on the work of the Program for the Human…
The big London DNA barcoding jamboree earned extensive press coverage, ranging from BBC and CNN to Science. https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/Marshall2005.pdf…
…people are likely to release from farming a land area “1½ times the size of Egypt, 2½ times the size of France, or 10 Iowas, and possibly multiples of this…
In 1982 Jesse translated from Italian into English about 200 pages from the unpublished diaries of Fey von Hassell, who had grown up in Rome in the 1930s as daughter…
The spectacular 4-hour video series with English narration deriving from the 480 hours of film taken by Jacques Perrin & Co. for the Galatee Oceans project will begin to air…
The New York Times mentions the Sloan Foundation’s Limits to Knowledge program and quotes Jesse….