educated at Harvard University and New York University, and received his PhD from Columbia University in 1978. His research has centered on epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical issues lying at the boundaries between economics and philosophy. He is the co-founder and former co-editor of the journal Economics and Philosophy. His most important books are The Inexact and Separate Science of E...

Hagfish slime is an ultra dilute, elastic and cohesive hydrogel that deploys within milliseconds in cold seawater from a glandularly secreted exudate. The slime is made of long keratin-like fibers and mucin-like glycoproteins that span a network which entraps water and acts as a defense mechanism against predators. Unlike other hydrogels, the slime only confines water physically and is very sus...

Bradley S. Gundlach, Michel Frising, Alireza Shahsafi, Gregory Vershbow, Chenghao Wan, Jad Salman, Bas Rokers, Laurent Lessard, Mikhail A. Kats Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Department of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI Department ...