Program for the Human Environment, The Rockefeller University

Jesse Ausubel speaks in Houston at the 4 April 2017 session of the centennial meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists on the next 100 years of energy use.

The Next 100 Years of Global Energy Use: Resources, Impacts and Economics DEG/EMD

Team members of the project “Using New Anthropological and Biological Tools to Learn about Leonardo da Vinci” with seed money from the Richard Lounsbery Foundation met 2-3 May in Florence, Italy, and have issued a press release about the publication of a set of papers from the project in Human Evolution. Jesse Ausubel mediated the opening seminar on 2 May sponsored by Eugenio Giani, President of the Regional Council of Tuscany. Jesse’s introductory essay is here. The press release earned wide attention, for example,

Gizmodo, USA

The Brilliantly Insane Plan to Reconstruct Leonardo da Vinci’s Genome

http://gizmodo.com/the-brilliantly-insane-plan-to-reconstruct-leonardo-da-1774873148

Daily Telegraph, UK

Leonardo da Vinci paintings analysed for DNA to solve grave mystery

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/05/05/leonardo-da-vinci-paintings-analysed-for-dna-to-solve-grave-myst/

La Repubblica –

Leonardo, alla ricerca del Dna per ricostruire il profilo genetico: prelievi su tombe e dipinti
Jesse Ausubel, vice presidente della Fondazione Richard Lounsbery, che sta finanziando parte del progetto, spiega che dopo aver ricostruito la sequenza del Dna si proverà a ottenere “tracce biologiche che potrebbero essere rimaste nelle pitture o nelle …
Agencia EFE, Spain (Spanish)

INVESTIGADORES QUIEREN EL ADN DE LEONARDO DA VINCI PARA RECONSTRUIR AL GENIO (RESEARCHERS WANT THE DNA OF LEONARDO DA VINCI TO REBUILD THE GENIUS)

http://www.radiointereconomia.com/2016/05/05/investigadores-quieren-el-adn-de-leonardo-da-vinci-para-reconstruir-al-genio/

The Brilliantly Insane Plan to Reconstruct Leonardo da Vinci's Genome An international team of scholars has just unveiled plans to science the s**t out of Leonardo da Vinci, the man who gave us the Mona Lisa and envisioned futuristic technologies like helicopters and tanks 500 years ago. Goals of the fledgling “Leonardo Project” include recovering the famous Renaissan...