You Put a Spell on Me

ATRX: Put Me on Repeat

Mutations in the chromatin-remodeling protein ATRX cause alpha thalassaemia and mental retardation, but the severity of the disorder is independent of the specific mutation. In this issue of Cell, Law et al. (2010) demonstrate that ATRX alters gene expression by binding to G-rich tandem repeats, and the degree of transcriptional silencing caused by ATRX mutations correlates with the number of r...

Doctor, Did You Put a Mesh on Me That Is No Longer Recommended?

You Validate Me , You like Me , You ’ Re Fun , You

The proposition that similarity breeds attraction has received longstanding theoretical and empirical support. Still, the processes that guide this effect remain relatively unexamined. In this study, with a large sample of college students, we tested four variables proposed in prior literature to theoretically account for the similarity-liking link: consensual validation, certainty of being lik...

Put Me in the Sky1

" I thought that I was going to be a doctor, and I majored in science and later in mathematics. But when I got out of college, I decided to study art, " divulged Romare Bearden in a 1968 oral history interview. In New York, " I went to study with George Grosz at the Art Students League. " The German-born artist guided Bearden's understanding of draftsmanship and classical technique, introducing...

You Won’t Harm Me If You Fool Me

A decision maker faces a new theory of how certain events unfold over time. The theory matters for choices she needs to make, but possibly the theory is a fabrication. We show that there is a test which is guaranteed to pass a true theory, and which is also conservative: A false theory will only pass when adopting it over the decision maker’s initial theory would not cause substantial harm; if ...