Reality of German Renewables
We admire everything that Vaclav Smil writes, for both his insights and lively style.  This essay, How Green Is Europe?, exemplifies the bracing cold shower one receives from reading…
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Environmental Populism
On September 23, 2019 PHE Senior Research Associate Iddo Wernick delivered at talk on ‘Environmentalism and Populism‘ at at meeting of the Breakthrough Institute in Middleburg, Virginia….
Naming names faster (addendum)
In yesterday’s post I placed “integrative taxonomy” on a spectrum with morphologic taxonomy at one end and “DNA taxonomy” as applied to eubacteria/archaebacteria at the other. Mehrdad Hajibabaei pointed out…
New Scientist Interview
The New Scientist weekly magazine 16 June 2010 publishes a short interview with Jesse about the Census of Marine Life and ideas for the international Quiet Ocean and Dark Sky…
Nature of the City
We post the polished text of Jesse Ausubel’s 2016 lecture on The Nature of the City as well as the video. For more information see What’s New entries from 19…
DNA helps identify African agricultural pests
Among the 35,000 known species of noctuid moths, a number are destructive agricultural pests, including for example Corn earworm Helicoverpa zea and Tobacco budworm Heliothis virescens. Accurate identification is the…
Ocean Exploration in Caribbean
Oceanography magazine published its Supplement covering the 2013 field season of the Exploration Vessel Nautilus in the Caribbean. Jesse Ausubel participated in the field season and is a co-author of…
Iddo on resource demands of renewables
PHE senior research associate Iddo Wernick publishes an op-ed in RealClear Science: Green Technologies Have a Glaring Problem of Scale…
Don’t barcode alone
…a social as well as scientific process–achieving consensus on COI and matK/rbcL are major achievements. In March 2010 Hydrobiologia, researchers from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research-Kolkata, India, and…
Small houses on big lots
…of limited variation within most species calls out for research into mitochondrial genetics. Here I examine the other half of what species-level mtDNA maps show: “lot size”, or mtDNA distances…