From punk into pop (via hardcore): Re-reading the <i>Sub Pop</i> manifesto

On the Nature of Resistance: The Chicago Hardcore Punk Scene and Levels of Opposition to the Dominant Culture

Very little has been written from a sociological or urban studies perspective about the hardcore punk subculture in the United States. Further, few studies have dealt with this social group’s ideology and tendency towards overt resistance to mainstream culture. In this study, I give a general perspective of the hardcore subculture and then, using basic univariate and bivariate analyses, show th...

Ebola goes pop: the filovirus from literature into film.

In 1976, an outbreak of viral hemorrhagic fever occurred in the Yambuku region of Zaire near the Ebola River. Taking its name from the river, the virus that caused the outbreak is one of the filoviruses, so called because under the microscope they look like threads or filaments. In the years following the outbreak, the U.S. public has become increasingly fascinated with the Ebola virus, as show...

(Re)Reading The Origin

Charles Darwin’s 1859 book On the Origin of Species is much referenced, especially in this double anniversary year. But, does anyone still read it? And, if so, what is the book itself like as a text? We have asked biologists from a range of fields — evolutionary biologists, but also geneticists, ecologists, paleontologists and molecular biologists — to re-read (or read) The Origin for Current B...

The uniform hardcore lemma via approximate Bregman projections

We give a simple, more efficient and uniform proof of the hard-core lemma, a fundamental result in complexity theory with applications in machine learning and cryptography. Our result follows from the connection between boosting algorithms and hard-core set constructions discovered by Klivans and Servedio [KS03]. Informally stated, our result is the following: suppose we fix a family of boolean...

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