Cosmos Prize photos

The International Cosmos Prize web page now has excellent photos and other material about the award of the 2011 prize to the Scientific Steering Committee of the Census of Marine…

Big Russian popular review of Deep Biosphere

Russian and Ukrainian scientists have made important contributions since Mendeleev. Jesse Ausubel is quoted near the end of the article. How they live where almost nobody lives: the dark side of…

Intern Isabel Kirsch

Isabel Kirsch, a student at Yale College, has worked with PHE during the summer of 2020 as an intern exploring the immune system through the lens of human performance enhancement….

Rat Race posted

Adding to our digital archive, we post a PDF of a 1991 paper by Jesse titled “Rat Race Dynamics and Crazy Companies: Diffusion of Technologies and Social Behaviors.”…

APPEA address published

The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association has published Jesse’s April 2007 Plenary address “The Future Environment for the Energy Business” in the 2007 APPEA Journal. A key theme of…

Census of Marine Life Reef book

I keep thinking the CoML is complete, then one more publication appears… Spineless, the incomparable photographer Susan Middleton’s book on invertebrates, has appeared. A good article https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/gorgeous-portraits-spineless-sea-creatures-180953078/?no-ist For sale at…

NYC/NJ aquatic DNA prelim results

Exciting preliminary results from our NYC/NJ Aquatic Environmental DNA (eDNA) project are posted on our updated webpage https://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/blog/nycnj-aquatic-vertebrate-edna-project/ The project aims to detect fish and other aquatic vertebrates by analyzing…

CCSTG

PHE helped convene a November 2002 reunion of participants in the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government (1988-1993). To read comments reflecting on the work of the Commission and…

Werewolf Microbes

“Werewolf Microbes might take power!” The e-zine Energy Tribune interviewed Jesse for its subscribers. We post the entire interview conducted by Robert Bryce….

Discover

Discover magazine celebrates our work with Finnish colleagues on the changing density of forests as one of the top 100 science stories of 2011. “Forests stage a comeback” is #36!”…