How does the US make sense of its elite educational system, given that it seems to be at odds with core American values, such as equality opportunity or upward mobility? Sophie Spieler explores scholarly and journalistic investigations, self-representational texts, fictional narratives revolving around Ivy League peers in order understand education peculiar position cultural discourse. Among bo...

It has been shown by several investigators I that when the pl-I value of the external dye solutions is increased, the rate of accumulation of a basic dye in the cell sap is accelerated. Two different explanations for this have been given. Some have accounted for it on the basis that the basic dye enters the cell in the form of a dye hydrate and combines with the substances in the cell; and that...

The colored appearances of animals are controlled by pigmentation, highly periodic ultrastructure, or a combination of both. Whiteness, however, is less common and is generated by neither of these, because it requires scattering processes appropriate for all visible wavelengths. We report whiteness resulting from a three-dimensional photonic solid in the scales of Cyphochilus spp. beetles. Thei...