When Was Judicial Self-Restraint?

The Meaning of Judicial Self-Restraint

Drebrin shows self-restraint

Injured neurons pump up the volume A wounded axon sends out a long-distance distress signal. HuntworkRodriguez et al. uncovered a positive feedback loop that might amplify the alarm and help it spread along the axon. A damaged axon dispatches an alert to the cell body, which fi res up genes that— depending on the neuron’s location—trigger healing or cause the axon to degenerate and the cell to ...

When Nuclear Power Was Flying

When I Was a Patient

This account of her experiences as a patient in a mental hospital has been sent to Mental Health by Susan X. We cannot, of course, print her name in full.

When the Field was Young

When the IEEE Computer Society (CS) was born on 31 December 1970, Computer was a young publication in a young eld, and it was the product of a young organization— the Society’s predecessor, the IEEE Computer Group. The president of the freshly franchised Society wrote that the time was right for looking back on the accomplishments of the founding IEEE Computer Group before “we start 1971 as the...