Yin–Yang Ways of Controlling Gene Expression Are Now in Our Hands

Our past, present, and future are in our hands.

History is sometimes a combination of facts and hearsay—perspectives from varying points of view and some twisted accounts of occurrences with opinions and interpretations thrown in for color. It is challenging to piece together the facts of an event and how it leads to another, the motivations of the people behind the events, and the effects they have on people, institutions, and society, at t...

Ways of the Hands

This paper presents an ethnographic analysis of the nature and role of gestural action in the performance of a remote collaborative physical task. The analysis focuses on the use of a low-tech prototype gesturing system, which projects unmediated gestures to create a mixed reality ecology that promotes awareness in cooperative activity. CSCW researchers have drawn attention to the core problem ...

In Our Hands Are 33 Versions of a Chain

The future in our hands

You might think that good salaries and generous funding would be enough to ensure the future of a research system. Yet, in Germany many young scientists may be forced to take jobs abroad rather than make a career here, and few non-Germans consider jobs here. So what’s the problem? Young German scientists progress through their undergraduate, PhD and postdoctoral years in much the same way as th...

Using our hands to change our minds.

Jean Piaget was a master at observing the routine behaviors children produce as they go from knowing less to knowing more about at a task, and making inferences not only about how children understand the task at each point, but also about how they progress from one point to the next. This article examines a routine behavior that Piaget overlooked-the spontaneous gestures speakers produce as the...