So That All May Speak: Inviting All to Describe Themselves in the L2 French Classroom

Dark Chocolate and Metabolic Syndrome; Do Polyphenols All that Matter?

Academic nepotism – all that glitters is not gold

Dear Editor With increasing emphasis on publications forfaculty recruitment, career advancementand obtaining research grants, the issues relatedto author kinship and academic nepotism havegrown significantly and these probably reflectthe inflationary growth rather than the optimalgrowth warranted due to increasing researchcomplexity. Allesina S (1) measured the fullmagnitude of nepotism in the ...

TrackMeNot-so-good-after-all

TrackMeNot is a Firefox plugin with laudable intentions protecting your privacy. By issuing a customizable stream of random search queries on its users’ behalf, TrackMeNot surmises that enough “search noise” will prevent its users’ true query profiles from being discerned. However, we find that clustering queries by semantic relatedness allows us to disentangle a nontrivial subset of true user ...

Not so simple after all

Biologists have long thought that the internal workings of prokary­ otes—the smallest and simplest organisms, including bacteria—are well understood, and have accordingly consid­ ered eukaryotic organisms and their cells to be more fascinating objects for study. During the past decade, however, the focus of some research has begun to turn back to prokaryotes—particularly because genomic analyse...

Not so simple after all

Biologists have long thought that the internal workings of prokary­ otes—the smallest and simplest organisms, including bacteria—are well understood, and have accordingly consid­ ered eukaryotic organisms and their cells to be more fascinating objects for study. During the past decade, however, the focus of some research has begun to turn back to prokaryotes—particularly because genomic analyse...