A Problem Convention

A Governing Convention? *

In this essay I argue that one can understand the relationship between those who rule and those who are ruled in civil society as an implicit contractual relationship or contract by convention. I use variations of the extensive form Trust Game to summarize the structures of alternative forms of contracts, and apply these variations to model the relationship between the rulers and those under th...

creative use of convention in Herikes Corrinas going a Maying

A microtubule dynamics reconstitutional convention

In vitro reconstitution is the fundamental test for identification of the core components of a biological process. In this issue, Moriwaki and Goshima (2016. J. Cell Biol. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201604118) reconstitute all phases of microtubule dynamics through the inclusion of five key regulators and demonstrate that Polo kinase activity shifts the system from an interphase mode into an e...

A microtubule dynamics reconstitutional convention

305 The Rockefeller University Press $30.00 J. Cell Biol. Vol. 215 No. 3 305–307 https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201610066 Microtubules are cytoskeletal structures that serve as tracks for motor-based intracellular transport and underlie the organization of biological apparatuses, including the mitotic spindle, cilia, and the phragmoplast. In vivo, microtubules are highly dynamic and interconvert b...

Beyond convention

A lthough copper-oxide superconductors share with conventional superconductors the remarkable property of offering no resistance to the flow of electricity, their characteristic critical temperatures (Tc) below which this happens can be as high as 135 K. In fact, these materials belong to the emerging class of so-called strongly correlated systems — a class of materials whose list is rapidly gr...