CoML in Cambridge
On 28 September in Cambridge MA for the 40th Reunion of his Harvard College class, Jesse presented a panoramic talk, Every Fish in the Sea, on the Census of Marine…
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Tracking disease vectors with DNA
…BOLD matches and knowledge of local fauna to “deduce that these species could be the Iberian hare Lepus granatensis, the red-legged partridge Alectoris rufa and the Egyptian mongoose Herpestes ichneumon.”…
Short videos of Galatee’s The Seasons
For Galatee’s new film, The Seasons, for which Jesse Ausubel served as a science advisor, great 30-second Japanese teaser: https://youtu.be/pRHfSgdCXMs And a 1 minute 42 second teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdLrFO06yM8 And one…
Tropical tree identification with DNA
Two groups of researchers explore tropical forest plots with DNA barcodes in October 2009 PLoS ONE and Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (both open access, the latter Twittered!). It is…
Encyclopedia of Life continues rapid expansion
A 4 January 2012 press release describes the continuing rapid expansion of the Encyclopedia of Life. It is hard to believe that the EOL went public only in February 2008.…
Census of Marine Life US Postal Stamps
available from Zazzle.com stamp designs by Mark Stoeckle…
Great Global Fish Count
We post the concept paper for the Great Global Fish Count and the 5 slides Jesse Ausubel and Mark Stoeckle prepared for the Ocean Studies Board virtual meeting to discuss…
Video of Jesse’s Nierenberg Prize lecture on “Peak Human?”
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…
New translation of classic Mendeleev article on origins of petroleum
…Veselin Kostov’s translation of this chapter together with a list of references on the abiogenic theory of petroleum origin (wherever our limited knowledge of Russian interrupted the continuous flow of…
Science issue on cities
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,…