Do you have a simple way to understand reality? This essay invites you to consider a helpful way to classify the things in the world, called the “1 + 4 + 1” map. Let’s begin by separating what exists ...

John Novembre may be a newly-crowned MacArthur fellow, but until last week he was better known by some as “the guy with the figure.” The computational biologist is responsible for an image that is ...

The Harvard Global Health Institute was one of eight organizations that created a simple color-coded map to help you identify the risk in your area. How likely are you to contract COVID-19? That’s a ...

We have constructed a genetic map of the mouse genome containing 4,006 simple sequence length polymorphims (SSLPs). The map provides an average spacing of 0.35 centiMorgans (cM) between markers, ...