Jesse’s Oceanaut Portrait

An exhibit in the Great Hall of the Aquarium of the Pacific near Los Angeles entitled The Oceanauts: Living the Dream of the Sea displays excellent mixed-media portraits by Zofia…

Nordhaus Nobel

William Nordhaus today earned the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his pioneering work on climate change. Hooray for Bill! Jesse first encountered Bill’s work in the late 1970s, started…

Deep Carbon Observatory midterm scientific report

Deep carbon science is rising. A Press release highlights publication of the Deep Carbon Observatory’s midterm scientific report and participation at the 2014 AGU Fall Meeting, 15-19 December 2014 in…

TED Conference

The Technology-Entertainment-Design (TED) conference that helped launch the Encyclopedia of Life and connect it with hi-techsters prepared a 4-minute, 13 MB video [download it here] that both reports on progress…

Chekhov anticipates environmental concerns

Russian writer Anton Chekhov anticipated 21st century environmental concerns about forests and climate (in an exchange in the first act) Â of his 1899 play Uncle Vanya….

Barcoding in Biology Textbook

Kate Stoeckle’s 2008 high school DNA barcoding project, dubbed “Sushi-gate“, is featured in the latest edition of McGraw-Hill textbook, Biology. Here is the excerpt from the book….

Vote for Encyclopedia of Life Video

The short video about the Encyclopedia of Life has been nominated for a Webby Prize. Please considering voting for it!…

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…