Never Silent Sights.

The never-silent presses.

So carried away was I in my last book review by a cadre of his book on its that I and his beat in the Aegean with his materials Handbook, a concise and desktop reference also although not so captivating as the earlier book, no doubt because it lends itself is readily to a sitting duck missions, that he has handled issues for an error but completion. Balls of it consists of separate chapters on ...

Sights on cone geometry

JCB • VOLUME 174 • NUMBER 1 • 2006 4 R ather than merely point-to-point dispatches, synaptic messengers also make widespread broadcasts, as evidenced by Steven DeVries, Wei Li, and Shannon Saszik (Northwestern University, Chicago, IL). Messages are received both near and far, they show, to create transient and sustained responses. The cone presynaptic terminal is highly invaginated, with ribbon...

Setting our sights on the stars.

Missing sights: consequences for visual cognitive development.

The effects of early-onset blindness on the development of the visual system have been explained traditionally by the stabilization of transient connections through Hebbian competition. Although many of the findings from congenital cataract and congenital blindness are consistent with that view, there is inconsistent evidence from studies of visual cognition in children treated for visual depri...

Statisticians set sights on observational studies.

tically signifi cant result. In a separate analysis, his team found that the main fi ndings of only one of six highly cited observational studies could be replicated; the conclusions from the other fi ve were refuted. “The combination of selec tive reporting and multiplicity of analysis undermines the credibility of epidemiological studies,” Ioannidis said at the an nual meeting of the American...