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Maglevs in the NY Times

September 4, 2017July 9, 2020

An article about the Hyperloop magnetically levitated train in the 10 August 2017 New York Times quotes Jesse Ausubel:

Why Even the Hyperloop Probably Wouldn’t Change Your Commute Time

Humans have historically tended to travel about half an hour to work, regardless of how fast the mode of transportation.

August 10, 2017 – By EMILY BADGER – The Upshot – Print Headline: “Hyperloop Would Offer Speed, Though Not a Cut in Commuting Time

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We first studied maglevs during the 1980s as part of a National Academy of Engineering project on cities and infratructures. Not enough has changed.

R Herman, JH Ausubel. Cities and their vital systems: Synthesis and perspectives Pp 1-21 in Cities and their vital systems: Infrastructure, Past, Present, and Future, National Academy, Washington, DC1988

More recent essays in this domain are:

The Nature of the City 2016

Cars and Civilization 2014

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Italy’s Corriere della Sera also runs a new story :Ecco perché auto senza pilota e treni iperveloci non ci faranno … Corriere della Sera–Aug 15, 2017

La scienziata comportamentale Jesse Ausubel si è in pratica chiesta: considerando il fatto che, secondo uno studio della American Community …

The Switch Interview

August 31, 2017October 4, 2022

Jesse was interviewed by Switch Energy Alliance in this short video, where he discusses reducing industrial encroachment into nature.

Concrete Life Cycle Assessment

July 18, 2017July 30, 2019

PHE researcher Iddo Wernick co-authored a recent article, Comparative LCA of concrete with natural and recycled coarse aggregate in the New York City area, published in The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. Congratulations to the main co-authors, professors Ardavan Yazdanbakhsh and Larry Bank and student Thomas Baez, in the Department of Civil Engineering at City College of New York.

Nature of the City

July 13, 2017September 27, 2022

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 December 2016

https://phe.rockefeller.edu/blog/2016/12/19/glasgow-talk/

and 4 March 2016

https://phe.rockefeller.edu/blog/2016/03/04/glasgow-cities-lecture/.

Thanks again to Prof. Colin McInnes of the University of Glasgow.

River campus

June 20, 2017June 20, 2017

Shown here are PHE members Jesse, Doris, Mark and Alan during a tour of the new addition to the Rockefeller University campus, the River Campus. Thanks to Alex Kogan, Rockefeller University’s Associate VP of Facilities.

Energy Density AAPG

June 20, 2017July 30, 2019

We post Jesse Ausubel’s centennial address to the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). The address, Density: Key to Fake and True News about Energy and Environment, will appear in the AAPG’s Search and Discovery, as contribution #70272 (2017).

Vineyard Conservation Society eDNA lecture

May 22, 2017December 3, 2019

June 27, 2017 6pm

put on your calendar!

West Tisbury Library

Naked DNA in My Water

. . . including Tisbury Great Pond and Look Pond

by Jesse H. Ausubel

p.s.

The Martha’s Vineyard Gazette ran a good article about Jesse’s talk:

As did the Martha’s Vineyard Times: https://www.mvtimes.com/2017/08/02/fishing-for-dna/

eDNA at BioBus

May 22, 2017December 3, 2019

Naked DNA in Seawater was the subject of Jesse Ausubel’s 17 May evening at the Lower East Side Girls Club for the BioBus. For some photos and a link to his 30-minute talk visit here.

Leonardo DNA Project in National Geographic

April 19, 2017July 30, 2019

Leonardo DNA Project in the news

The Leonardo DNA Project features on pages 49 and 54-55 of Claudia Kalb’s article about genius in the May 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.

Elga Daifa published on article about the Leonardo DNA Project in the Greek edition of People magazine: https://www.peoplegreece.com/article/spazontas-ton-kodika-tou-dna-tou-leonardo-da-vinci-nees-apokalipsis-gia-ton-efevreti-ke-zografo-enigma/

Sarah Cascone writes about the project in ArtNet news

Cracking the Real da Vinci Code: Meet the Scientist Who Is Mapping Leonardo’s DNA

Sam Munson published an interview with Jesse Ausubel about the Leonardo DNA Project in the Octavian Report: https://octavianreport.com/article/jesse-ausubel-leonardo-genome/

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Fishing for DNA paper published

April 12, 2017July 30, 2019

The new PHE paper “Aquatic Environmental DNA Detects Seasonal Fish Abundance and Habitat Preference in an Urban Estuary” by Mark Stoeckle, Lyubov Soboleva, and Zachary Charlop-Powers appears tpday in PLOS ONE. The DOI is: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175186

Congratulations to Mark, Lyubov and Zach!

A press release describes the work.

Coverage:

New York One TV 2-minute video

Fish Tracked From DNA ‘Finprints’ Left in Waters off New York U.S. News & World Report – Alister Doyle – Reuters

El ADN residual puede revolucionar el conocimiento de las …W Radio-EFE – Julio Rivas –Durante seis meses, los científicos recolectaron el ADN residual, denominado …

US scientists track fish migration using DNA in water samples Breitbart News

BBC World Service Radio (Science in Action, starts at the 47 sec. mark, 5 1/2 minutes): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04yxshm#play

A 40 sec. clip is also posted here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04zzxsh

https://www.flyfisherman.com/news/edna-bread-crumbs-track-migrating-fish/

Smithsonian magazine How teeny bits of leftover DNA help scientists track elusive species