Conserving Performance, Performing Conservation: Kim Kardashian x Marilyn Monroe

Quality of life and Marilyn Monroe: which language do they speak?

The Kardashian Kernel

We propose a new family of kernels, based on the Kardashian family. We provide theoretical insights. We dance. As an application, we apply the new class of kernels to the problem of doing stuff. Figure 1: A motivation for the Kernel Trick. κ maps the real world of sane people into the subset of (R − Q)∞ spanned by Robert Kardashian, Sr. and Kris Jenner (formerly Kardashian). We would like to av...

Marilyn Farquhar: From the beginning

F ew people have a perspective on cell biology that can compare to Marilyn Farquhar's. She was there at the very beginning and, over the course of her career, has both witnessed and helped guide the evolution of the fi eld. She has served as faculty at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and at Yale. And, as the fi rst head of the Depart-(UCSD), she nurtured the development of th...

Conserving agricultural biodiversity for use in sustainable food systems Conservation

Inspiring minds. Marilyn Huestis.

In the 1950s, when the world seemed a safer place, a parent might send a young child on an overnight train to a relative in a distant city. Marilyn Huestis was five years old and her sister was three when they made the journey from Hyattsville, Maryland, to Jacksonville, Florida, to see their grandparents. As it sped along, the train hit and killed a man who had wandered onto the tracks, which ...