Television: The Great Wired Hope

Hope and great opportunity for young neuroscientist

Open Access Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest challenges facing 21st century science. For a long time though, it has been a closed black box to us. Different strategies have been employed in trying to unravel the mysteries inside the black box. On this basis, the goal is to discover more and more complex structures until a complete understanding of the brain is achieved. Acco...

The Great Hope of Academic Mentor Programs: the Unfulfilled Promise

This article reviews and critiques the literature on academic mentor programs in higher education. Challenges of both the one-to-one mentoring model and the network mentoring model are discussed. The author argues that both models fall short in revealing the hidden curriculum (i.e., the unwritten and unspoken norms, values, and expectations of the academic culture of higher education) to studen...

Targeting glioblastoma cancer stem cells: the next great hope?

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common primary brain tumor and is notorious for its poor prognosis. The highly invasive nature of GBM and its inherent resistance to therapy lead to very high rates of recurrence. Recently, a small cohort of tumor cells, called cancer stem cells (CSCs), has been recognized as a subset of tumor cells with self-renewal ability and multilineage capacity. T...

Working Stiff(s) on Reality Television during the Great Recession

This essay traces some of the narratives and cultural politics of work on reality television after the economic crash of 2008. Specifically, it discusses the emergence of paid labor shows like Ax Men, Black Gold and Coal and a resurgent interest in working bodies at a time when the working class in the US seems all but consigned to the dustbin of history. As an implicit response to the crisis o...

Models-based practice: great white hope or white elephant?