The Interminable Son

Science interminable: Blame Ben?

Science is indeed interminable. Criticizing old ideas, coming up with new ones in an iterative process of creative destruction and reinvention is the spice of life for research. But there is another seemingly interminable aspect of science, at least in the biomedical arena, related to journal publication. When I was a postdoctoral fellow with Julius “Julie” Axelrod at the National Institutes of...

Cloud SON: A New Member of the SON Family

Le Laboratoire de Lague: Son role et son expansion

IRREDUCIBILITY OF COMMUTING VARIETY ASSOCIATED WITH (son+m, son⊕som)

The ground field k is algebraically closed and of characteristic zero. Let g be a reductive algebraic Lie algebra over k and σ an involutory automorphism of g. Then g = g0 ⊕ g1 is the direct sum of σ-eigenspaces. Here g0 is a reductive subalgebra and g1 is a g0-module. Let G be the adjoint group of g and G0 ⊂ G a connected subgroup with LieG0 = g0. The commuting variety of (g, g0) is the follow...

This Stranger, My Son

This is the story of how a conventional middle-class American household?a surgeon, his wife and three normal children?had first to recognise, then to cope with and, finally, to exclude, an abnormal family member. Tony was a beautiful child, the eldest, and apart from long hours of screaming for no apparent reason, he seemed a normal baby. His intellectual and motor development was average, but ...