Minority Report

HIRWG Minority Report

The convening of, and the charge to, a Hurricane Intensity Research Working Group (HIRWG) by the NOAA Science Advisory Board (SAB) attested to the following assessments by the agency's leadership. First, the predictive tools available to guide operational forecasting of tropical-cyclone intensity need to be upgraded. Second, it is not clear that the current research activities in NOAA will furn...

Minority Equity Report - May 2005

Minority Report: Re-Reading Gilgamesh After Levinas

The Epic of Gilgamesh attempts to answer the question of how, given the finality of death, one might find meaning and happiness in life. Many commentators argue that the text provides two separate, although ultimately unsatisfactory, alternatives. What these commentators appear to miss, however, is the possibility that these two solutions may not be separate. Using Levinas’s distinction between...

The Histone Minority Report the Variant Shall Not Be Silenced

In this issue of Cell, Meneghini et al. demonstrate that replacement of canonical histone H2A with the histone variant H2A.Z within euchromatin prevents silent chromatin proteins from migrating into regions of the chromosome that normally are transcriptionally active. Thus, this highly conserved histone variant is critical for defining chromatin domains.

What price security?--A review of Steven Spielberg's Minority report.

Do you believe your dreams will come true? Would you believe another person’s dreams? In 2054, we will not only believe in the predictive power of dreams, we will rest a whole crime-prevention strategy on it. This is the premise of Minority Report, a summer science fiction offering from director Steven Spielberg with actor Tom Cruise in the role of the detective involved in running the program....