by Robert B. Avery Robert B. Avery is a professor in the Department of Consumer Economics and Housing at Cornell University and a research associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. The author gratefully acknowledges useful comments and suggestions from Rosemary Avery, Glenn Canner, Randall Eberts, George Galster, Mark Sniderman, and James Thomson. Fungya Huang provided helpful researc...

ture and social structure—going all the way back to the classic statements by Marx and Engels (1939) and Durkheim ([1933] 1997:215, 276)—aim at explaining the connection between these two domains by highlighting the ways in which patterns of social relations affect the composition and structure of cultural systems (Bearman 1993; Douglas 1978; Martin 2002). Some of the more ambitious projects, s...

Robert Insall was born in London in 1965, into a family of architects, musicians and historians. To their great surprise, he was obviously scientifically inclined from an early age. He did a B.A. at Cambridge University, then stuck around in Cambridge for a Ph.D., where he got interested in Dictyostelium, followed by a postdoc in Johns Hopkins, where he got interested in chemotaxis and cell mov...

We are investigating the signal transduction mechanisms by which extracellular hydrophilic hormones activate genes. We use Dictyostelium discoideum as a model eukaryote because it is relatively easy to perform reverse genetics on this organism and it is also capable of development. We had earlier shown that extracellular cAMP behaves as a hydrophilic

With this often quoted statement, Albert Kahn sought to differentiate his firm’s approach from that of his peers and competitors in the first half of the twentieth century. Coinciding with the rapid industrialization of the American economy during this period, Albert Kahn Associates (AKA) developed to be the premier industrial architects of this country, if not of the entire world. Kahn’s pract...

LH: How do you organize the work the students do in Biomotion? BF: They hear lectures and discuss topics for about half of the course, and then they do projects. I ask them to work in teams to design something that moves, inspired by biology. For example, they might design the next Mars Rover, using principles of biological movement. They buy toys—construction kits, and they build their designs.

conservation measures and the sustainable use of biodiversity. The society is the custodian of Linnaeus’ original library and collections and is creating a digital archive, enabling full global access. While such moves are occurring with many collections, the value of the new book is the listing of many much less well-known collections, which will not, in the near future, be available electroni...