A Noble Thing?

A Thing of Beauty

A unique feature of birds is their varied and colorful plumage, replete with striking patterns. By coupling a careful mapping of distinct feather features such as pigment color, distribution, and their temporal variationwith a cellular andmolecular analysis of melanocytes, Cheng-Ming Chuong and colleagues provide a roadmap for studying feather patterning in chickens. Notably, feather patterns a...

Surgery: A “Noble“ Profession

Yet, when I began to set my thoughts in order, the concept of surgery and what it takes to be a surgeon proved to be elusive. Each word or definition suggested more words and more description. It began to look as if there was just too much material to describe this entity, almost “too many notes.”1 The topic would not reduce itself. I became engrossed with finding a way to adequately describe s...

Wonderful Thing

W ith the increased dependence on networks and the near ubiquitous availability of the Internet, there is a new paradigm in place for the proliferation of spyware, viruses, and other malware. In fact, much attention has been given to spyware in popular literature with reports from multiple sources indicating that spyware has perhaps reached 90% home user PCs [2]. There is reason to believe this...

Is Cooperation a Good Thing?

Is the Internet a Thing?

N o, I'm not trying to apply the term " Inter-net of Things " recursively, though it would be fun to give the root domain file an IP address and have it be reachable. I'm just using a current colloquial expression to ask what the Internet actually is, and who might own it. I'm asking these questions because of the announcement that ICANN will move out of US Department of Commerce authority (and...