Stanford looks to the west

A radiation biologist looks to the future.

Once again we stand on a pinnacle of time. Backward we look to a year that has gone. Forward we look to the year ahead. Except that this particular pinnacle also separates the centuries and the millennia. Everyone, in every field, is taking stock: Where have we been and where are we going? We celebrate 100 years of radiation research. As the nineteenth century became the twentieth, X-rays had a...

Coordinating the Human Looks

Prescott et al. take a step forward in studying primate morphological evolution by a cellular anthropology approach. Through epigenomic profiling of in-vitro-derived cells, the authors identify and characterize candidate cis-regulatory elements underlying divergence in facial morphology between human and chimp, shedding new light on what makes us (look) human.

What’s beyond looks? -- 1 Running Head: WHAT’S BEYOND LOOKS? What’s beyond looks? Reply to Gelman and Waxman

In the target article, Sloutsky, Kloos, and Fisher (SKF) presented evidence that young children perform induction based on appearance even when categories are not grounded in similarity. In their comment, Gelman and Waxman argue that evidence presented by SKF can be discounted because their stimuli are inadequate. This response focuses on two issues: (1) whether the criticism of SKF stimuli is ...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

The ACC looks globally to tackle cardiovascular disease.