Alex Williams

An Illinois teacher — and the mother of the rock star Tom Morello — she took on Tipper Gore during culture war skirmishes over warning labels on records.

The ability to record from large populations of neurons has triggered the development of myriad methods for comparing them. But we're still grappling with how to convert measures of likeness into a better mechanistic understanding.

Known as Monoman for his love of vintage LPs, he kept the punkish torch burning by leading Lyres, a Boston group that became an institution.

Arlene Smith, the lead singer and songwriter of the Chantels, a quintet that in the late 1950s helped start the “girl group” wave with a ballad, “Maybe,” that became one

After filling his apartment with industrial sewing machines, he began producing high-end jeans that made him famous with denim-heads in the days of lumberjack chic.

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He abandoned a job teaching college English in the 1960s to become a pioneer of the instrument, playing onstage with Herbie Hancock’s jazz band.

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A phenom in his 20s, he became the poster child for Zombie Formalism before abandoning the gallery frenzy for Montauk.