The Yemeni manuscript collections constitute a unique treasure trove for large segments of the Islamic intellectual tradition—Sunni as well as Shii—much of which has not survived anywhere else in the Islamic world.
I hope we'll have a deeper understanding of the relationship between gravity and quantum mechanics. It seems like black holes are sort of the frontier in trying to do that.
Douglas Stanford in the Cool Alter-Ego of a Black Hole
What is a state? We propose our own response as sociologists and anthropologists. But the specificity of our approach resides in its method: ethnography.
Didier Fassin in What Is a State?
Gene regulatory networks are the source of many human diseases. How do we infer their structures from partial data?
Jennifer Chayes in The Age of Networks
