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Universality in Self-Assembly Processes
Tanja Schilling
[short_description] A theoretical physicist responds to Michael Engel’s essay on a series of experiments on universality in self-assembly processes and the original research under review.
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On Anthropic Arguments
Milan Ćirković
reply by Lawrence Krauss
[short_description] The universe supports life on one planet. Some erroneously find this fact to be evidence of fine-tuning and thus evidence of design. Might research into astrobiology have more insights to offer?
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Escape from the Prisoner’s Dilemma
Christoph Adami
[short_description] William Press and Freeman Dyson’s serendipitous and seminal work on zero determinant strategies has shined a spotlight on how to escape from the trap that is set by dangling a reward for selfish behavior.
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Unnecessary Necessity
Lotfi Sayahi
reply by Kees Versteegh
[short_description] A survey of the Arabic grammatical tradition is not about Arabic alone. It is about scholarly inquiry and debate, diglossic languages, and their contribution to the evolution of language and linguistics.
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On the Shoulders of Giants
Kersten Hall
[short_description] In discovering DNA’s structure, while James Watson and Francis Crick stood on the shoulders of Rosalind Franklin, there remains another unsung heroine upon whose shoulders Franklin herself stood.
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Czechoslovakia and Soviet Foreign Policy
Norman Naimark
[short_description] Although not addressed in his study of Soviet foreign policy in postwar Europe, Norman Naimark believes the Czechoslovak coup of February 1948 would make an ideal subject for a future monograph.
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Languages and the Necker Cube
Thom Scott-Phillips
reply by Riny Huybregts
[short_description] Over the past twenty or so years, comparative studies have revealed that important qualities of human languages are also present in the communication systems of other species.
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Babbler Phonology and Combinatorial Systems
Sabrina Engesser & W. Tecumseh Fitch
reply by Riny Huybregts
[short_description] Studies on animal combinatoriality, particularly in birds, have evoked heated discussion among linguists. Some researchers doubt whether animal communication is comparable to human linguistic structures.
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Negotiations in the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma
Ethan Akin
[short_description] William Press and Freeman Dyson’s 2012 results were new and unexpected, and still excite considerable response. Ethan Akin presents another approach to winning the iterated prisoner’s dilemma.
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