Ju ly 20 0 8 Il lu st ra tI o n b y se a n m cc a be ; s o u rc es : D a n Ie l sa m br au s (h um an s ku ll) , P a sc a l G o et G h el u ck (N ea nd er ta l s ku ll) , b Io Ph o to a ss o cI at es (c hr om os om es ) P ho to R es ea rc he rs , I nc . A development company controlled by Osama bin Laden’s half brother revealed last year that it wants to build a bridge that will span the Bab el...

Henry Sun works where other biologists fear to tread, or maybe they just don’t want to bother. Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys feature temperatures as low as minus 68 °C, winds up to 200 miles per hour, and less than 10% relative humidity. Early polar explorer Robert Scott dubbed them the “Valley of the Dead.” However, they are the favorite field site of Sun, a microbiologist at the Desert Res...

With the advent of technology that made possible large-scale sequencing and genotyping studies, it quickly became apparent that the demographic history of our species had been recorded in the genome and we could reconstruct our wanderings across the globe by studying DNA. While the vast majority of genetic variation is shared among continental populations, the most prominent finding from these ...

Global Autofictional Flânerie Shaj Mathew (bio) I He is a walking paradox: loner who desires the crowd, “a prince everywhere rejoices in his incognito,” spectator casts off air of detachment, skeptic can experience states childlike wonder, “an ‘I’ with an insatiable appetite for ‘non-I.’”1 More gaze than body, he phantom arcade, mirror as vast crowd itself . kaleidoscope gifted consciousness” (...

Введение. Обращение представителей литературного творчества Cеребряного века к проблеме странничества обусловлено беспокойством за судьбу России и поиском возможностей преображения мира, а также пути самоопределения. Для мыслителя, поэта, художника М. А. Волошина концепт «странничество» является ключевым. Цель данной статьи – выявление языковых особенностей воплощения концептов «странничество»,...

Hebrew language and Jewish culture have been around for thousands of years. For much of that history, the Jews managed to maintain their heritage and cultural identity in the absence of a geographical state. Wanderings, settlements, and dispersal were thus a big part of their history. Is evidence for that history preserved in genome data? Eran Elhaik, a geneticist at the Johns Hopkins School of...

Case Report The patient was referred to the school medical officer at the age of 6 years as 'somewhat microcephalic' (head circumference 19 in.) 'and in need of special educational treatment'. Some months before he had been seen by an orthopaedic surgeon because of bad posture; he also had 'weak ankles and knees'. No organic disease was found. The advice that he should do postural exercises was...

This volume is a fine example of contemporary early modern studies. Topped and tailed by the editors' Introduction Paul Hammond's Afterword on disenchantment monarchy, these sixteen substantial essays new old hands from number disciplines illuminate Stuart monarchy between “succession crisis” 1590s Queen Anne's coronation in 1702. Professors Kewes McRae rightly proclaim novelty their subject, “...

The process of understanding a source code in a high-level programming language is a complex cognitive task. The provision of helpful decision aid subsystems would be of great bene t to software maintainers. Given a library of program plan templates, generating a partial understanding of a piece of software source code can be shown to correspond to the construction of mappings between segments ...