Are you a selective-realist dialetheist without knowing it?

Knowing a Nascent Synapse When You See It

To understand brain development, we must learn how synapse formation shapes functional neural circuits. At the heart of this process lies the nascent synapse--an enigmatic structure spanning the developmental gap between initial cell-cell contact and the mature synapse. New experimental techniques are beginning to illuminate the processes involved in synaptogenesis, but much remains to be learn...

Positional Information: Knowing Where You Are in a Limb

In the regenerating amphibian limb, positional information has traditionally been considered in terms of short-range cell-cell interactions, not long-range diffusion gradients. A molecule discovered in a differential screen of regenerating limbs turns out to be precisely such a cell surface component, the newt ortholog of mouse CD59.

How to Speak a Language without Knowing It

We develop a system that lets people overcome language barriers by letting them speak a language they do not know. Our system accepts text entered by a user, translates the text, then converts the translation into a phonetic spelling in the user’s own orthography. We trained the system on phonetic spellings in travel phrasebooks.

Are you a meaningful IT user?

Knowing Me, Knowing You: Networks of Cooperation