“Dancing through the humor, hassles and humanity of the holidays” plus 2 more

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“Dancing through the humor, hassles and humanity of the holidays” plus 2 more

“Dancing through the humor, hassles and humanity of the holidays” plus 2 more


Dancing through the humor, hassles and humanity of the holidays

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 01:40 PM PST

It all started innocently enough. Kim Jureckson, artistic director of the Grant Street Dance Company, was enjoying a holiday presentation of "The Nutcracker" with two friends. When it was over, the ladies joked that Grant Street should do a "Nutcracker." "We're an intergenerational modern dance c...

Apparently Humor and Gobbledygook Don't Help

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 08:44 AM PST

Samuel Arbesman, in reflecting on a 2008 Journal of Information Science paper in which researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology examined "whether the use of humor in scientific article titles is associated with the number of citations an article receives," says that "humor aside, there is the additional problem of whether or not a paper is well-written."

Humor, We Hope

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 08:29 AM PST

Alexei Aravin's lab is focused on investigating piRNA biogenesis via the "ping-pong" model that proposes amplification of piRNAs in a cycle that depends on the nuclease activity of Piwi proteins themselves.

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