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Welcome to Brain Stories
Submitted by Brain Stories on Sat, 06/16/2007 - 11:25am
Curious about the brain? About behavior and experiences/feelings, your own and other people's? There's lots on Serendip to help you think about such things, and to encourage you to develop new understandings and new questions about them, including a whole section on Brain and Behavior and another on Mental Health. And, of course, there are new observations being made all of the time, reported in professional journals, newspapers, magazines, books, and on the web.
Dance is hard to see ... the purest form of knowledge?
Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 1:06pmA month ago I spent several hours watching an opening session in the development of the dance piece "Dance is Hard to See," and talking with choreographer Kathryn Tebordo and the dancers about what I had seen and what dance was, or might be, all about. "Dance is the purest form of knowledge" emerged from that conversation, which was a rich experience for me, one I have been mulling ever since. I'm very much looking forward to this coming Sunday's performance of "Dance is Hard to See," to seeing how it has evolved and talking more with Kathryn, the performers, and other audience members about, among other things, what it says about what dance is (see
Biology 103, 2009, Web Papers 2
Students in Biology 103 at Bryn Mawr College write web papers on topics of interest to themselves. These are made available via links from the index below to encourage further exploration by others having similar or related interests. All papers have associated on-line forums for continuing conversation.
Everything in the Cabinet Tasted Different: An Exploration of Taste, Illness, and the Story of Flavor
Submitted by drichard on Mon, 11/09/2009 - 4:28am
Summer K-16 Institutes on Inquiry/Brain/Science/Education
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BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR INSTITUTE 2009Continuing Conversation |
Science Education Workshop - October 2009
Science as Open-Ended Transactional Inquiry
The Three Loops and their Implications for the Classroom
Workshop with the science faculty at Delaware Valley Friends School
Paul Grobstein
9 October 2009
Overview
Who Needs Sleep?
Submitted by heatherl18 on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 10:41am
There are twenty-four hours in a day. This is a fact of which every human - and especially every college student - is well aware. Unfortunately, it never seems as though twenty-four hours is completely enough for everything that needs to get done. It does not help that approximately (allegedly) eight of these hours are dedicated to being completely unconscious. Sleep is such an essential part of the human routine that many of our non-daylight hours are devoted to it. And yet, while we understand the rejuvenated feeling of a good night's sleep or the tired crabbiness of a pre-coffee early morning, no one seems to understand the actual purpose of sleep itself.





