A short but relevant history lesson

Lesson Study and History Education

A short history of a short RNA

The intellectual backdrop motivating our effort to clone lin-4 (Lee et al., 1993) had nothing to do with questions about noncoding RNAs or antisense gene regulation. We were simply curious about an interesting worm mutant, and everything we found out about it was unexpected. We consider ourselves very lucky to happen to have chosen lin-4 to study. In fact, good fortune appeared at many steps be...

Programs provide a history lesson--blacks and women in science.

Some of the pioneers-those who pursued careers in science despite barriers-were featured in two recent AAAS programs, "Black Americans in Science" and "Women in Science: Historical Perspectives." Six black scientists who earned their doctorates during the 1930's and 1940's came to Washington, D.C., in late February to provide oral biographical essays. They discussed their education and careers ...

Moving Away From Binary Decision Making: A Lesson From History

Doc, does this treatment work? It is a reasonable question, but statistics is a tricky business and one where clinicians should tread with care. So, how do you try to decide whether the results of a clinical trial show that a treatment works or not? Palesch has described some common P value pitfalls, so that decisions based on an arbitrary P value of <0.05, to test whether a trial result is sig...

A European History Lesson for Today’s Central Bankers∗

Treasury bonds provide money-like services, while other bonds do not. These money-like services, which include safety and liquidity, are valued more during financial crises, reducing the substitutability of actual Treasuries and synthetic Treasuries—other types of bonds that yield the same cash flows. Large equilibrium yield spreads between actual and synthetic Treasuries result. During the rec...