Slipping from the heights

Slipping through the middle

Tugging and pulling in asymmetric cell divisions n asymmetric divisions, the cell alters the normal process that centers the spindle in the mother cell, but how it regulates the timing of spindle movement is unclear. Now, on page 245, Labbé et al. describe a tethering system that resists premature movement of the mitotic spindle during asymmetric cell divisions in C. elegans embryogenesis. It w...

Encrypted Messages from the Heights of Cryptomania

How flexible can encryption be? This question motivated the invention of public key encryption that began modern cryptography. A lot has happened since then. I will focus on two lines of research that I find especially interesting (mainly the second) and the mysterious gap between them. The first line of research asks: how flexibly can encryption handle compu-tation? The answer seems to be " ve...

Slipping the Bonds of Federalism

wuthering heights and the concept of marality/a sociological study of the novel

to discuss my point, i have collected quite a number of articles, anthologies, and books about "wuthering heights" applying various ideas and theories to this fantastic story. hence, i have come to believe that gadamer and jauss are rightful when they claim that "the individaul human mind is the center and origin of all meaning," 3 that reading literature is a reader-oriented activity, that it ...

Metastasis: Slipping Control

‘‘And now here it was again, now grown, now in its new home.’’ In her book Resilience, Elizabeth Edwards recalls what raced through her mind when she learned that her cancer had come back and had metastasized. After surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, she thought that the cancer ‘‘had been chased away.’’ How does cancer find a new home and become metastatic? The short answer is simple: it is ...