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Pondering the Pulvinar

While the function of the pulvinar remains one of the least explored among the thalamic nuclei despite occupying the most thalamic volume in primates, it has long been suspected to play a crucial role in attentive stimulus processing. In this issue of Neuron, Zhou et al. (2016) use simultaneous pulvinar-visual cortex recordings and pulvinar inactivation to provide evidence that the pulvinar is ...

Pondering Live CDs

Live CDs provide an easy and convenient way for users to try out a new operating system (OS) by letting them run the software directly from a bootable CD. While variations of such Live CDs exist for many free operating systems, they usually are developed for a specific purpose by third parties instead of being an integral and generic part of the release engineering process of the OS. Often mark...

PONdering the Access Network

The access network is the connection between the telephone in your home and the local exchange. It is the first step of a customer’s connection to the rest of the national telephone network. Traditionally this connection is a twisted pair of copper wires, which is adequate for telephone calls, but the wide scale introduction of the Internet is placing higher bandwidth demands on the entire netw...

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Fiscal Policy and Inflation: Pondering the Imponderables

An asset-pricing perspective on inflation reveals that it depends on current and expected monetary and fiscal policies. There are three ways to carry $1 today into the future: money, bonds, and real assets. That dollar’s purchasing power varies inversely with the price level. Expected money growth, tax rates, and government spending directly impinge on these expected rates of return of these as...