Dirty work

A Fool to Do Your Dirty Work?

Much of life on Earth owes its spectacular success to a rather important evolutionary transition—from single-celled organisms to multicellularity—which has occurred independently in many lineages, enabling the differentiation of cells to perform the highly specialized functions that we see in living fungi, plants, and animals. However, whereas all clones of single-celled organisms have a relati...

The dirty work of promoting "recycling" of America's sewage sludge.

Serious illnesses, including deaths, and adverse environmental impacts have been linked to land application of sewage sludge. EPA and the wastewater treatment industry have worked with Congress to fund wastewater trade associations to promote land application, supporting industry-friendly scientists and discouraging independent research, to prevent local governments from restricting land applic...

Dirty Liberals!

Many moral codes place a special emphasis on bodily purity, and manipulations that directly target bodily purity have been shown to influence a variety of moral judgments. Across two studies, we demonstrated that reminders of physical purity influence specific moral judgments regarding behaviors in the sexual domain as well as broad political attitudes. In Study 1, individuals in a public setti...

Dirty RF

Future wireless communications systems are expected to provide ever higher data rates. Still, devices have to be produced at reasonable cost in order to be affordable to customers. The widely known impairments – ”dirt effects” – in analog RF tend to aggravate as we go for the large transmission bandwidths and high carrier frequencies that usually come with an increased data throughput. To date,...

Dirty Money