Tornadic Black Angels: Vodou, Dance, Revolution

Automatic Processing of Dance Dance Revolution

The video game Dance Dance Revolution is a musicbased game of timing. The game plays music and shows patterns of arrows synchronized with the music. The player stands on a platform marked with the same four arrows shown in the game and earns a score based on how closely his steps match the timing of the video game. A pattern of steps for a given song is called a step chart, and each step chart ...

Law, Legitimacy and Black Revolution

Auxin Distribution and Plant Pattern Formation: How Many Angels Can Dance on the Point of PIN?

The plant hormone auxin is central in patterning diverse plant tissues. The direction of auxin flow and the distribution of auxin within tissues are regulated by auxin efflux transporters that are polarly localized in cells. Feedback regulation between auxin and its transporters establishes homeostatic patterns of auxin accumulation but allows dynamic repatterning in response to developmental o...

The World of Vodou Songs

Angels and Other Servants

In politics as in history, masters accomplish great things, but often, lowly beings such as servants perform those tasks. At times, they subvert them. In science, servant-beings are frequently described as demons and angels. Who are these effective agents? This essay traces parts of the large historical network of persons and places in which ‘little helpers’ service their master’s will. It look...