Wineworld: Tasting, Making, Drinking, Being

Apple Tasting

We use two transformations to relate the apple tasting model to an enhanced standard model where false acceptances are counted separately from false rejections. We apply our results to obtain a good generalpurpose apple tasting algorithm as well as nearly optimal apple tasting algorithms for a variety of standard classes, such as conjunctions and disjunctions of n boolean variables. We also pre...

Tasting the Bitter Sunlight

Have you ever had that gut reaction to your surroundings, some physical sensation that something isn’t quite right? Maybe a squirmy, uneasy feeling in your stomach or an acrid taste on your tongue that makes you want to leave the scene? When the nematode C. elegans encounters an offensive sensation—whether a pungent, potentially dangerous odor (such as those associated with fungal parasites), e...

High Affinity: Making Up for Being Male

Tea Tasting and Pascal Triangles

Chemosensation: Tasting with the Tail

Animals employ multiple mechanisms to detect the presence and location of environmental stimuli. Recent work suggests that Caenorhabditis elegans uses chemosensory information provided by spatially distinct sensilla to generate a sensory map of its environment and to avoid noxious compounds.