Making recipes: Essaying with mess and embodied knowledges

Embodied decision making with animations

Playing with Recipes

The sense of taste is a highly complex phenomena, and has not been tackled by recipe generators. However, the techniques used in modeling taste and generating recipes can inform a class of playful interfaces that help users explore, experiment with and gain mastery over the manipulation of highly complex models. This abstract introduces an architecture for a model of taste that users interact w...

Frog, Fly, Chick, Mouse—Recipes for Making Animals

for Making Animals with their cargo or with Ran. This chapter includes clearly depicted molecular structures of importin, as well as a detailed discussion of their implications for the Essential Developmental Biology mechanism of transport. In truth, the book would have By Jonathan Slack benefited from inclusion of a separate chapter on the Boston: Blackwell Science (2001). cell biology and bio...

Don't mess with the DSMB.

Since the DSMB (data and safety monitoring board) is charged with ensuring that clinical equipoise is maintained as trial data are accrued, it is considered very bad, even self-destructive, behavior for people who are involved with the study to interact with DSMB members on trialrelated issues. Traditionally, there has been a wall between investigators, sponsors, and the DSMB. This wall prevent...

Parkinson's disease: don't mess with calcium.

The hallmark of the movement disorder Parkinson's disease (PD) is progressive degeneration of dopaminergic neurons. Mitochondrial dysfunction, impaired ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis of α-synuclein, and ER stress are each implicated in the complex and poorly understood sequence of events leading to dopaminergic neuron demise. In this issue of the JCI, Selvaraj et al. report that in a mouse neur...