• The Blueprint Redefined

The vision was a poet’s dream: a baptistry on the shores of Normandy, its tidal pools made entirely of nature’s own sand and salt water, literally demolishing itself with the rise of the tide, and recreating itself at its ebb. The notion of nature reconstructing itself conjures up spiritual ideas of renewal, purgation, and nature’s unity with human creation. The project, however, was not inspired by any poet or theologian...
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• Quantum Phase Transitions

Are you interested in the collective dynamics of many teeny, tiny particles? If so, this is the place to be. Yale’s condensed matter theoretical group garners world-wide recognition, unraveling the underlying foundations of phenomena that bewilder inquiring minds. Among those phenomena are the phases of matter....
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• Logic in Binary Numbers

In the 19th and 20th centuries, logical expressions moved from natural language to a more algebraic language as the rules of logic became more rigorous. In modern logical terms, Aristotle’s syllogism has become: “Each element in the set made up of all men has the property that it is mortal. Since the set of all Greeks is a subset of the set of all men, each element in the set of all Greeks must also have the property that it is mortal.” This type of language may seem unnecessarily complicated, but it is much more precise than natural language, and it allows for a greater variety of ideas to be expressed....
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• Give, Take, and Keep

I wish to donate my organs and tissues. I wish to give: 1) any needed organs and tissues; 2) only the following organs and tissues.” Sign the card, ask two witnesses to sign, and you have become an organ donor. Today, more than 80,000 candidates wait for a transplant opportunity, and many more join the list as advances in clinical medicine have allowed transplantation to become a treatment for their once hopeless diseases....
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• From Bench to Bedside

Established early in the 20th century, the Department of Neurosurgery at Yale continues to excel as one of the best centers in the world for treating epilepsy, brain tumors, and other neurological diseases by combining innovative research and technology....
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• The Meat of the Issue

Mad cows stalk the streets of Kalamazoo. It is the year 2025, and the United States has seen a transformation from omnivorism to veganism. What could we do to prevent such happenings? Well, nothing too extreme, apparently. The problem of mad cow is not one of plague-scale epidemics and bovine terror in the heartland. The real research behind the disease of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), dubbed “mad cow disease” by the popular media, is very different from the hype surrounding it.
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• Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling

What is a woman? Perhaps a better question would be: “What is a woman not?” In celebration of women exploring non-traditional occupations, Jonathan Edwards College sponsored the 2003 Tetelman Fellowship panel discussion, “Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Women Pioneers in Space.” Space exploration, in particular, represents one of the most extreme vocations from which women were traditionally barred. Active and former United States astronauts, a former Russian cosmonaut, and several science historians attended a series of events to speak to the public about the issue of women working in space....
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