Decoherence and Ontology (or: How I learned to stop worrying and love FAPP)

Zornian Functional Analysis or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Axiom of Choice

The future of human - computer interaction , or how I learned to stop worrying and love my intelligent room

interaction, or how I learned to stop worrying and love my intelligent room Michael H. Coen, MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Predicting the future is notoriously difficult. Suppose 100 years ago someone suggested that every bedroom in the US would soon have a bell that anyone in the world could ring anytime, day or night. Would you have believed it? Nevertheless, the telephone caught on and has...

GPI anchoring of protein in yeast and mammalian cells or: How we learned to stop worrying and love glycophospholipids

The Inevitable Ontological Commitment or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Ontology

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the application of Foundational Ontologies, i.e., formal ontological theories in the philosophical sense, for providing real-world semantics for conceptual modeling languages, and theoretically sound foundations and methodological guidelines for evaluating and improving the individual models produced using these languages. The lack of proper...

Emotional Regulation, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Nucleus Accumbens

How does the brain control emotion? In this issue of Neuron, Wager et al. use a novel mediation analysis of neuroimaging data to show two independent pathways for the control of emotion by the prefrontal cortex: a path through the amygdala predicts a greater negative emotional response, and a path through the nucleus accumbens/ventral striatum predicts a greater positive response.