Corngrowers outperform professors
In a 2011 lecture at Iowa State University, Prof. Thomas Sinclair (North Carolina State) concluded from models and projections of yields of maize that maximum US corn yields would be…
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Jesse’s Oak Ridge slides
Jesse presented the 9th annual Alvin M. Weinberg lecture at Oak Ridge National Laboratory 5 June, expanding his April Austin talk on decarbonization. Now 88 and continuously creative, Alvin directed…
Global libido
David Goldman, aka Spengler, cites our 1998 essay “Reasons to worry about the human environment” in his provocative 13 Mar 2012 column in AsiaTimes “Japan’s lost libido and America’s asexual…
New software for visualizing the whole animal kingdom
Swiss bioinformatics wizard Wandrille Duchemin and PHE Guest Investigator David Thaler publish PyKleeBarcode: Enabling representation of the whole animal kingdom in information space in PLoS One. The computational advances in…
UN CoML Talk
On 4 June Jesse addressed a session of the UN Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and Law of the Sea in New York City about the Census of Marine Life….
The Switch Interview
Jesse was interviewed by Switch Energy Alliance in this short video, where he discusses reducing industrial encroachment into nature….
WSJ 30 May
The program Jesse has managed for the Sloan Foundation on the Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable is featured in the Wall Street Journal (May 30)0r the original article scanned….
Barcode of Life
Our efforts on environmental genomics begin to bear fruit. A “Barcode of Life” project seems likely to proceed based on the just-completed “Banbury II” conference on DNA & taxonomy at…
Yeti crab inspires Pokemon
Brazilian crustacean experts Rafael Rosa, Daniel Cavallari & Ana Vera-Silva suggest that the abominable Yeti crab discovered by the Census of Marine Life and described in 2006 by Macpherson, Jones…
Airborne DNA
PHE’s marine eDNA expert Mark Stoeckle comments on new papers on airborne eDNA in the video Scientists ID Dozens of Plants, Animals from Free-Floating DNA. In a trio of studies,…