Eleventh Street

Eleventh Bowditch Lecture

A prime objective of neurophysiology is to learn how cells in the nervous system function during the everyday and moment-to-moment activities of an organism. This amounts to learning how the brain is constructed and how the parts function when the organism perceives, thinks or acts. An equally important though perhaps less obvious objective is to understand how the structure and function of the...

Eleventh Quarterly Progress Report

Developmental Biology. Eleventh Edition

With high-throughput sequencing, transcriptomics, and proteomics no longer in their “infancy” as described in the preface by author T.A. Brown, Genomes 4 offers an expansive review on a broad spectrum of topics in genetics ranging from the central dogma of genes coding for proteins, to the fine technical details of genome mapping. This edition retains the four-part organization from the previou...

Occupy Wall Street, Bay Street and the street nearest you.

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a study in early January highlighting the growing income disparities between the richest and poorest Canadians. Income tax files from 2007 show that the average income of the top 1% of income earners was over $400,000 compared to about $44,000 for the average Canadian, almost a tenfold difference. Those who laboured at the minimum wage earned...

Street Crime and Street Culture

A model of social interactions shows why and when reputation concerns may support an ‘underclass’ culture of street crime where the incentives for such behavior are otherwise weak. Those who do not gain from street crime directly nevertheless find it optimal to invest in violence and thereby build a reputation that will earn them deference from the rest of the community. Even when the fraction ...