Despite considerable media attention, portable electronic readers (e-readers) have not yet had a significant consumer impact. They offer several features unavailable in print media, such as easily accessible content and potential for interactive capacity similar to what can be found on the Internet. Flawed design and high cost, however, may inhibit wide end-user adoption. Using a mix of scholar...

High-content screening microscopy relies on automation infrastructure that is typically proprietary, non-customizable, costly and requires a high level of skill to use and maintain. The increasing availability of rapid prototyping technology makes it possible to quickly engineer alternatives to conventional automation infrastructure that are low-cost and user-friendly. Here, we describe a 3D pr...

In his essay “In Good Faith” (1990), Salman Rushdie discusses the reactions his novel, The Satanic Verses (1988; “SV”) has evoked around the world. According to Rushdie, his novel has been treated as “a work of bad history, as an anti-religious pamphlet, as the product of an international capitalistJewish conspiracy, as an act of murder,” everything but literature, a work of fiction. Rushdie is...