Sense and Nonsense. Cézanne’s Doubt

Common Sense and Nonsense

The irrepressible Bernard E. Rollin has written a lively, provocative, and scholarly book on several pivotal bioethical issues in nonhuman animal research. Professor Rollin of Colorado State University asksand answers whether nonhuman animals think, feel, and suffer. Rollin asks whether the prevailing scientific justification for banning nonhuman animals is based on rational assessment of the i...

Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense

Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense

plied to scalar, electromagnetic, and spinorial fields in order to prepare the reader for understanding field interactions. The authors introduce the scattering matrix, FeynmanDyson diagrams, and the effective scattering cross section as general problems of field interactions. They examine divergence-free second order processes, using Compton scattering and Møller scattering as examples, and ca...

Making sense out of nonsense.

T is considerable interest among protein scientists in methods that permit unnatural amino acids to be incorporated at specific sites in proteins. Such methods would facilitate studies of protein structure and function and would allow for the synthesis of proteins having novel properties. Current methods use nonsense-suppressing tRNAs (1) to incorporate an unnatural amino acid at the desired si...

Stacking Chairs: Local Sense and Global Nonsense

We report a confusing stimulus which demonstrates the power of local interpretation of three-dimensional structure to disrupt a coherent global perception.