Tallenes tale

Digital Necrosis: A Hoarder’s Tale

An Architectural Tale of the Two Cities

A comparative study of the corresponding styles of Western and Iranian modern architecture has hardly ever been carried out in detail. This paper aims to sketch out an outline for such an investigation and to present a summary of empirical evidence accompanied by field observations to elaborate the ongoing trend of relationship between architectural styles in Iran and that of the West. This is ...

Tale fin

A few readers of my last two columns may have suspected that something was afoot. Why, they might ask, does he suddenly produce not one, but two confessions? After shamefacedly exposing his tendency to consider book theft as a way of acquiring knowledge and trying to reverse the hint of plagiarism in his works by suggesting that it was the other way around, we might expect anything. Well, the e...

Dove tale

unusual pollinator with a long proboscis. This was only confirmed later with the discovery of a moth with a suitable proboscis. And Darwin had strong links with Kew — he was a close friend of one Shortly after biologist Bonnie Rusk began her graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, her supervisor, Stanley Temple, made a suggestion that changed her life. She was interested parti...

An expanded TALE repertoire

Cell type–specific gene expression, which is essential during development, relies on the action of enhancers. Several techniques allow for the identification of enhancer elements; Maehr and colleagues have now developed a method to functionally characterize them. They use the clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) system whereby guide RNAs and a nuclease-‘dead’ ver...