Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Novice and Seasoned Authors!

Hear, Hear for the Zebrafish

Our senses of hearing and balance rely on the function of specialized receptor neurons called "hair cells." In this issue of Neuron, Grant et al. report a series of elegant zebrafish experiments that reveal a previously unappreciated role for glia in the regulation of hair cell proliferation and differentiation. This work is a beautiful example of how zebrafish are particularly useful model sys...

To hear or not to hear.

Hearing loss is common among older adults. Research has found a prevalence of 33% or higher of bilateral hearing loss in people 50 and older (Mitchell et al., 2011). Hearing loss has been associated with decline in both mental and physical health. Problems linked to hearing loss include lower cognitive functioning, functional status, and quality of lifefortunately, many older adults who purchas...

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Do you hear what I hear?

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Seek and Ye Shall Find

This chapter proposes that search engines apply a verticalizing pressure on the WWW many-to-many information distribution model, forcing this to revert to a distributive model similar to that of the mass media. The argument for this starts with a critical descriptive examination of the history of search mechanisms for the Internet. Parallel to this there is a discussion of the increasing ties b...