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Parsing Cancer Metaphors

Submitted by jrlewis on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 12:47am

Biology 398 - Biology in Society

Senior Seminar in Biology and Society
November 10, 2009
Julia Lewis

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Mycology Demystified

MYCOLOGY DEMYSTIFIED

“Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally”, John Muir from an original article in The Atlantic, April 1900.

What do we see when we go out into the woods?

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Love: A Mere Narcotic High?

Submitted by Yashaswini on Sat, 11/07/2009 - 12:53pm

Love: A Narcotic High?

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Disability and Transfolk (aka "Am I disabled?")

Submitted by rae on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 5:48pm

Figure 1

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Student Brains: Navigating the Jungle of Neuronal Networks

Submitted by joycetheriot on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 5:43pm

The Art of Changing the Brain by James Zull has been my "brain bible" (so to speak) this year. I keep it with me all the time to help me design strategies. Zull discusses the Neural Networks that our students develop and biologically keep all their lives so therefore teachers can't erase background knowledge. A possible tactic is to find out what they are thinking and how they explain a particular phenomenon and then help them make critical new connections.

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