story telling
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.
What's New on Serendip?
Submitted by Ann Dixon on Thu, 02/01/2007 - 8:46pmSummer K-16 Institutes on Inquiry/Brain/Science/Education
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BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR INSTITUTE 2009Continuing Conversation |
The Classification Problem: Implications for Intentionality
The Classification Problem
Taxonomists and systematists are interested in understanding evolutionary relationships between living organisms. This in turn is motivated by an interest to understand the forces and factors that influence evolution within taxa and in so doing, evolution in general.
Cell death, human death, and evolution
Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sat, 10/10/2009 - 12:38pm"The quest for eternal life, or at least prolonged youthfulness, has now migrated from the outer fringes of alternative medicine to the halls of Harvard Medical School" ... Quest for a long life gains scientific respect
I wonder if the involved researchers at the Harvard Medical School and elsewhere are paying any attention to the broader implications of related research
Learning to live in/as an evolving system
Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sat, 10/10/2009 - 11:37amPaul Krugman's The Politics of Spite is focused on a small issue (current Republican party practices) but speaks importantly to a much more general one, the use in politics of "scorched-earth tactics." So too with a recent news article: Another Landlord Worry: Is the Elevator Kosher? Describing a current controversy about shabbas practices, it quotes a New Yorker as saying “Just because there is one opinion doesn’t mean that it is everyone’s opinion. One of the wonderful things about Judaism is that there are competing opinions about everything.”
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
Biology 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.
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.
