Reference databases of DNA sequences used for species identification, ie DNA barcode libraries, are most powerful when the morphologic specimens are vouchered in a museum collection. This way, when there…
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PHE’s guest investigator David Thaler offers some stimulating ideas in a memo about ways of understanding and learning from degradation of aquatic eDNA. The title: How long has each particular…
In this 54″ video made 13 October, 2022 Jesse Ausubel, awarded the 2022 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest, discusses whether the human species can continue to improve—much…
…CNRS editions, Paris. Two major newswires, Agence France Presse and Agencia EFE, each did separate stories: Manny Torralba et al. AFP Microbes Could ‘help Save Old Masters’ And Catch Forgers…
…includes melons, gourds, cucumbers, pumpkins, and squash. Psiguria sp. tax morphological identification due to sometimes drastic changes in leaf and flower structure within and over lifetime of individuals, and frequent…
Our work in the 1980s on Cities and Their Vital Systems with Robert Herman, Cesare Marchetti, Alvin Weinberg, Brian Arthur, Nebojsa Nakicenovic and others seems to have acquired cult status,…
The Census of Marine Life appears in a vivid 29 Sept 2018 article in the Huffington Post by Ilana Straus about estimating the number of species. The Strange Story Behind…
Cambridge (UK) historian of science Simon Mitton has just published the excellent book From Crust to Core (A Chronicle of Deep Carbon Science). Jesse Ausubel authored the Foreword, which explains…
…2014 course participants Rupa Ram and Dominic Olinares wrote a generous account of last year’s field trip to Washington DC in the University’s Incubator blog. Jesse’s viewpoint on science &…