There were few Marxist sympathizers among Polish classicists decimated during World War II. How they fared the tense and uncertain first postwar decade depended on their Communist connections personality. Kazimierz Majewski (1903–1981), a classicist from Lviv, commanded quasi-universal respect in academic community – despite his views because of scholarly, organizational, didactic achievements....

1212 JEM Vol. 206, No. 6, 2009 After earning his PhD with Jim Allison at the University of California, Berkeley, Max Krummel went down under to work with Ken Shortman and Bill Heath at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne. But it wasn’t until his second postdoc that Krummel cut his teeth on real-time microscopy while studying T cell signaling in Mark Davis’ laboratory at Stanford Un...

The classical view that equates rationality with adherence to the laws of probability theory and logic has driven much research on inference. Recently, an increasing number of researchers have begun to espouse a view of rationality that takes account of organisms' adaptive goals, natural environments, and cognitive constraints. We argue that inference is carried out using boundedly rational heu...