Keeping up appearances: Linda Grant’s immigrant family were upwardly mobile and bought clothes that showed their aspirations

Keeping up appearances

objects—‘Santa Claus is fat’ has one kind of semantic interpretation, while ‘Bob is fat’ has another. Meanwhile ‘pretense’ theories face the problem (among others) that no pretense seems to be going on at all when we say ‘Santa Claus doesn’t exist’. See Ludlow 1999 pg. 71, and also Brown, 2009, ch. 2. (Even so, such theories may actually be providing the most objectively simple 50 explanations ...

Keeping up appearances

Orchids show an astonishing floral diversity yet an ability to hybridize in the hands of breeders. Nigel Williams reports on a new study that shows how neighbours appear to avoid the hybrid trap in the wild.

Keeping Up Appearances: Audience Segregation in Social Network Sites

Keeping up appearances: Strategic information exchange by disidentified group members

Information exchange is a crucial process in groups, but to date, no one has systematically examined how a group member's relationship with a group can undermine this process. The current research examined whether disidentified group members (i.e., members who have a negative relationship with their group) strategically undermine the group outcome in information exchange. Disidentification has ...

Upwardly mobile proteins

High Mobility Group proteins (HMGs) are a set of chromatin proteins first identified in the 1970s because they are very abundant and run fast on SDS–PAGE. In these and other properties they resemble histones. And like histones, which have seen a resurgence of interest thanks to the discovery that their modification modulates transcription, HMGs are staging a comeback. They now appear to be impo...