Purpose
Published papers are rarely complete products. They often raise a lot of new questions. Some of these questions may propel fruitful new directions and others remain rhetorical. Nevertheless, all of these questions often enrich our intellectual process. The objective of this collection of essays is to examine these questions, whether scientific in nature or not.
About the author
The author of these essays, Madhusudhan Venkadesan, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Yale University. He studies the mechanics and control of how animals move. Problems being pursued include locomotion in animals, the geometry of joints, the topology of shape-changing skins, and the dynamics of muscle. The motivation for and application of his work include biomedical sciences, evolutionary biology, robotics, and plain curiosity about everyday observations.