‘Everything About Being Indie Is All Tied to Not Being Black’

America, all things not being equal.

Being Agile is not Enough

Agile Approaches arose in the world of software development. Frequent releases provide early feedback with respect to requirements, technology and business value. Focused and empowered teams deliver huge amounts of software with very high quality. Transferring these concepts to the world of embedded development, the greatest challenge are frequent releases due to the interdependency of requirem...

Cell Polarization: It's All about Being in Shape

In eukaryotic cells microtubules and actin filaments help to generate the spatial organization of the cytoplasm that is required for polarity and shape. Recent work in fission yeast demonstrates that changing cell shape in turn reorganizes the cytoskeleton and cell polarization machinery.

Being Realistic about Reasons

In my first lecture I listed seven questions about reasons that seemed to require answers. These were: Relational Character: Reasons are reasons for an agent. How is this relational character to be understood? Ground of Truth: In virtue of what are claims about reasons true, when they are true? Does the idea that claims about reasons are true or false, independent of our opinions about them, an...

Being Positive about Selection

H ow has language developed in humans and what genetic changes underlie our unique cognitive abilities? Accounts of positive selection that lead to such abilities in humans fascinate us because of the insight they provide into our own evolution, and into the many genetic differences that distinguish us from other apes. The genes that became fi xed in our lineage as a result of positive selectio...