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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.
Love: A Mere Narcotic High?
Submitted by Yashaswini on Sat, 11/07/2009 - 12:53pmLove: A Narcotic High?
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.
Effects of Caffeine
Submitted by Yashaswini on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 10:30amBiology 103, 2009, Web Papers I
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.
Lateralization in Horses
Submitted by Lili on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 11:52pmHemispheric Lateralization in Horses
Multiple worlds, multiple interpretations: quantum physics and the brain
Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Tue, 09/22/2009 - 10:48amVery interesting seminar last night by Guy Blaylock on the multiple worlds interpretation of quantum physics. Nice example of the principle that a given set of empirical observations is always subject to multiple interpretations, ie that there is always a perspectival or "subjective" element in scientific stories. And an interesting dissection of reasons for preferring one or another several stories, a dissection that might in turn lead to some new stories.





