Ourselves and the Russians

Ourselves

Irradiating Ourselves

Background: Efficient incorporation of the cellular cytidine deaminase APOBEC3G (APO3G) into HIV-1 virions is necessary for its antiviral activity. Even though cellular RNAs are known to be nonspecifically incorporated into virus particles, we have previously found that encapsidation of APO3G into HIV-1 virions is specifically enhanced by viral genomic RNA. Intracellularly, APO3G was found to f...

Interculturalism and New Russians in Berlin

In his paper, "Interculturalism and New Russians in Berlin" Giacomo Bottá discusses aspects of the community of Russian artists in contemporary (post-1989) Berlin. The Berlin-based Russendisko night has been held in Tel Aviv, Milan, or Frankfurt, where enthusiastic people danced to songs of obscure Russian bands. In 2004, a new CD compilation, Russensoul, was published and in 2005 Karaoke, the ...

Between ourselves: psychodynamics and the interpersonal domain.

that the intellectual fashion in explanations of human nature that has dominated the Englishspeakingworld for the past 20 years is changing. It has become commonplace to claim that the giants who shaped much 20th-century thought (Marx and Freud) are dead, replaced by the evolutionist Darwin. But there are intriguing signs that Freud, at least, was merely sleeping, awaiting a new summons from th...

Reinventing Ourselves: The Plasticity of Embodiment, Sensing, and Mind*. Short title: Reinventing Ourselves

Recent advances in Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience open up new vistas for human enhancement. Central to much of this work is the idea of new Human-Machine interfaces (in general) and new Brain-Machine interfaces (in particular). But despite the increasing prominence of such ideas, the very idea of such an interface remains surprisingly under-explored. In particular, the notion of h...