The Eleventh Commandment

The Great Commandment, Tao, and the Survival of Humanity

At present humans appear wildly successful in evolutionary terms: with a mass comparable to other primates we have an abundance comparable to insects. But this success is entangled with a paradox: evolutionary success is traditionally seen as based on fierce competition, yet our current success is unsustainable without unprecedented levels of cooperation. A partial resolution of this paradox co...

Eleventh Bowditch Lecture

A prime objective of neurophysiology is to learn how cells in the nervous system function during the everyday and moment-to-moment activities of an organism. This amounts to learning how the brain is constructed and how the parts function when the organism perceives, thinks or acts. An equally important though perhaps less obvious objective is to understand how the structure and function of the...

Eleventh Quarterly Progress Report

Developmental Biology. Eleventh Edition

With high-throughput sequencing, transcriptomics, and proteomics no longer in their “infancy” as described in the preface by author T.A. Brown, Genomes 4 offers an expansive review on a broad spectrum of topics in genetics ranging from the central dogma of genes coding for proteins, to the fine technical details of genome mapping. This edition retains the four-part organization from the previou...

Panel: First commandment at least, do nothing well!

In a recent keynote speech [1], UCB Prof. Randy Katz defined power as the 21st century’s most limited, as well as most wasted resource: not only we seem to be unable to generate “greener” power but, at all levels, we seem to be really poor even in making an efficient use of our precious power. We waste while doing things, as well as while doing nothing! “Electronics is sized for peak power cons...