Visions of the 21st Century
…of toxic waste. The really bad news is that most of the planet’s 6 billion people are just beginning to follow in the trash-filled footsteps of the U.S. and the…
…of toxic waste. The really bad news is that most of the planet’s 6 billion people are just beginning to follow in the trash-filled footsteps of the U.S. and the…
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…
…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,”…
…rather than later.” In a breakthrough application of DNA barcoding, reported 3 February in the NY Times, “New York Attorney General Targets Supplements at Major Retailers.” New York’s lead owes…
Addressing Environmental Quality and Public Health at the Community Level: A Problem Statement IDDO K. WERNICK The Rockefeller University, New York, NY SUMMARY As the size and diversity of the…
The New York Times mentions the Sloan Foundation’s Limits to Knowledge program and quotes Jesse….
On 26 April the New York Times ran a profile by Nicholas Wade about the span of Jesse’s career, “Commodore of a Global DNA Census. 
Finnish analyst Lauri Hetemaki documents a powerful example of Dematerialization in the U.S. newsprint market. For more information, see, Hetemäki, L. 2005, Chapter 6.2.2 “The U.S. newsprint market”, pp. 77-80,…
…the critics did not understand the difficulties of working with the remaining unpublished documents that are mostly a collection of fragile fragments of parchment.” New York Times September 5, 1991…
…Library), Linnaeus listed 564 species collected from all over the world. In 1935, Ernst Mayr estimated 8,500 world birds, and counted more precisely in 1946, arriving at a total of…