In an exciting study in the December 4(th) issue of Science, Bonifazi and colleagues demonstrated the existence and importance of exceedingly rare but unusually richly connected cells in the developing hippocampus. Manipulating the activity of single GABAergic hub cells modulated network activity patterns, demonstrating their importance for coordinating synchronous activity.

The development literature has pointed out some deeply rooted determinants of current economic development. We checked the historical Portuguese municipalities’ and also if strength different dominant medieval classes (nobility, clergy, bourgeoisie) in each municipality importance for social development, using proxies. results indicate that cathedral antiquity is statistically significant expla...

Sovereign wealth funds are neither novel nor constitute any decisive shift towards state control. States and markets are co-constitutive, but states have power precisely because of their ability to define property rights and thus draw the boundary between public and private activity. The way they draw that boundary determines the nature of capitalism in any specific market. ‘Sovereign wealth fu...

It may seem a little surprising to consider Kenneth Slessor, who was born in the year 1901, in a context of aestheticism and fin-de-siècle writing. Such a procedure may seem more appropriate to earlier Australian authors such as Christopher Brennan, Hugh McCrae or Victor Daley. Nevertheless, the influence of the Aesthetic Movement, of certain nineteenth-century French authors, directly or via E...