What's New on Serendip
To help keep track of a changing and developing Serendip, major new additions,
with the date added, will be posted here.
- Science Education as Interactive Conversation, is available for download, and we have some links to relevant materials, from the SENCER conference in Washington D.C. - April 2008
- Serendip Readers Write Back presents an alphabetical-by-title listing of web paper titles available from the last 10 years of Bryn Mawr College student work - March 2008
- Ambiguous Figures is a fun, interactive experience where you attempt to see multiple interpretations of images, some animated - March 2008
- Courses for Spring 2008:
- The "objectivity"/"subjectivity" spectrum:
having one's cake and eating it too?- thoughts by Paul Grobstein inspired by course discussion - December 2007
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A Visit with Susan Stryker, "I think queer means valuing that which is off-center and against the norm..." - October 2007
- New and Revised Hands-On Activities for Teaching Biology to High School or Middle School
Students, including Diffusion: Molecular Transport across Membranes, and Invertebrate Diversity, by Dr. Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer
Doherty - September 2007
- Courses for Fall 2007:
- Serendip's Bookshelves has 2 new reviews, for The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Probable and The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative by Anne Dalke - July 2007
- Paths to Story Telling as Life: Fellow Traveling with Richard Rorty by Paul Grobstein - July 2007
- Bryn Mawr College Summer Institutes for K-12 Teachers - July 2007
- "Right" and "Wrong" in Science (and Elsewhere?): A Conversation
- June 2007
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Reflections, includes A Feminist If, Weeding, Seeding and Place-Keeping: A Story with Three Steps and a Coda and Standpoint Matters: Keeping the Play in Play by Anne Dalke - June 2007
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The Scientific Mind, the Brain, and Human Culture: Story Telling and Story Sharing, notes for a longer paper by Paul Grobstein - June 2007
- Critical Feminist Studies, a new course announcement for Fall '07, invites Bryn Mawr alumnae to participate online using Serendip's Exchange - June 2007
- Brain Stories's blog gets started with an opening discussion, Childhood Origins of Adult Resistance to Science - June 2007
- The Story Hour: The Use of Narrative Therapy with Families by Sarah Gibbs -June 2007
- The Human Condition As Seen by a Materialist Neurobiologist, a talk by Paul Grobstein at the Building the Scientific Mind conference - May 2007
- Re-Making the Landscape: The Art and Science of Ava Blitz , one of Serendip's first guest exhibiting artists, Ava Blitz, returns to Serendip with "Cooking Up a Storm" and "Beauty and the Beast" - March 2007
- Brain and Education: Thinking About New Directions, issues, perspectives and resources - March 2007
- Theater: The Life of Galileo , a discussion forum about the Wilma Theater production - March 2007
- Different Behaviors, Different Brains?, an exhibit about individual variation of brains, including different species and genders - February 2007
- Serendip's Exchange, a place for conversations, blogs, forums and papers in progress. Please join in! - January 2007
- Courses for Spring 2007:
- Textbooks and Introductory Science Education, a paper examining some of the shortcomings of textbooks - January 2007
- Theater Discussions Online: My Children, My Africa! - December 2006
- 2006-07 Center for Science in Society Working Groups:
- Stranger in a
Strange Land: Grokking in the Americas, Anne Dalke's blog as she
travels in Central and South America during her sabbatical - Fall 2006
- Theater Discussions Online: The Pillowman , a discussion group to explore questions about whether there are certain stories that should never be told? - Fall 2006
- The Nature of Science:The "Problem of Unconceived Alternatives" and its Significance, a discussion between Kyle Stanford and Paul Grobstein about the nature of theoretical inquiry and its predictive qualities - September 2006
- Science and a Sense of Place: Watershed Education for K-12 Students, hands-on activities for environmental studies by Catherine Riihimaki and Kaitlin Friedman - September 2006
- Fall Courses for Fall 2006:
- Susan White in Togo, an update to Serendip's Togo Connection - August 2006
- New Book Reviews on Serendip's Bookshelves in August 2006:
- Empowering Learners: A Handbook for the Theory and Practice of Extra-Classroom Teaching has been updated with student research papers - August 2006
- Geographic (and Human?) Diversity: Exploring Iceland, in Text and Image, a photography exhibition by Anne Dalke - August 2006
- Hands-On Activities for Teaching Biology to High School or Middle School Students, a set of 18 interactive lesson plans, has been updated - August 2006
- Science and a Sense of Place: Learning Where We Are Located in the World, materials and discussions from the 2006 Exploration and Emergence Institute for K-12 educators - July 2006
- Brain and Behavior Institute: Implications for K-12 Education, materials and discussions from the 2006 Brain and Behavior Institute for K-12 educators - July 2006
- Science/Religion Clash, a letter to the New York Times - July 2006
- Ant Colonies: Social Organization Without a Director? - an interactive exhibit motivated by Deborah Gordon's work on ant colonies by Laura Cyckowski and Paul Grobstein - June 2006
- Thinking About an Elementary Science Education Curriculum, A Collaboration between Lansdowne Friends School and the Bryn Mawr College Center for Science in Society - May 2006
- An Inconvenient Truth Forum, an online film discussion moderated by the Bryn Mawr Film Institute - May 2006
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Getting it Less Wrong, further refining the "less wrong" idea
that science and life are both processes not of becoming "right" but rather of becoming "less wrong." - May 2006
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Thinking About Death: Life as a Crapshoot - April 2006
- Theater Discussions Online for Cloud 9, a Caryl Churchill play produced at the Wilma Theater - April 2006
- Thank You for Smoking Forum, an online film discussion moderated by the Bryn Mawr Film Institute - March 2006
- Brokeback Mountain Forum, an online film discussion moderated by the Bryn Mawr Film Institute - Winter 2006
- Heather Raffo's 9 Parts of Desire Forum, an online discussion of a theater production at the Wilma Theater, Philadelphia, PA - February 2006
- Serendip Readers Write Back, an updated list of web papers written by undergraduates taking Bryn Mawr College courses, has been updated with reader responses. Topics such as
Bioluminescence, HIV and AIDS, NCAA vs. AIAW,
Stuttering and Vasovagal Syncope are open for discussion - February 2006
- Center for Science in Society Blog, Serendip experiments with the blog format for the Emergence course crosslisted in Biology and Computer Science - January 2006
- Spring 2006 Courses on Serendip:
- The Psychoanalyst and the Neurobiologist, a conversation about healing the soul and telling stories of the mind, brain,
self, and culture between Elio Frattaroli and Paul Grobstein
- January 2006
- Samorost, an interesting world to explore, a place to wander, to see what there is to see, a creation of Jakub Dvorsky and Vaclav Blin of Amanita Design in the Czech Republic - December 2005
- Serendip's Mailbag, a small sample of email comments on how Serendip is useful in a variety of ways - December 2005
- Courses Near and Far Using Serendip Materials, an incomplete listing of college and universities using Serendip in their courses - December 2005
- Rachel Grobstein Gallery 2005, "Beginning, Muddle, and End," an art exhibition in Brunswick, Maine - December 2005
- Science as Storytelling, an essay by B.R. Bickmore, Dept of Geology, Brigham Young U. and D.A. Grandy, Dept of Philosophy, Brigham Young U. - December 2005
- Science as Storytelling or Story Telling?
, a conversation among Bickmore, Grandy and Grobstein - December 2005
- Women, Gender and Culture: A New Initiative, notes from talks, forum, resources, co-sponsored by the Gender and Sexuality Program at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges - November 2005
- Keeping Our Heads Above Water: No Buoys Allowed, a lecture by Anne Dalke, accompanying the exhibition "Building Muscles While Building Minds: Athletics and the Early Years of Women's Education" - November 2005
- Re-presenting Parenting, discussions about balancing work and family without the constraint of cultural stereotypes - November 2005
- The Art Historian and the Neurobiologist: A Conversation About Proprioception, the "I-function", Body Art, and ... Story Telling? by Kristine Stiles and Paul Grobstein - November 2005
- Center for Science in Society's Site Map - November 2005
- Why Words Arise--and Wherefore: Literature and Literary Theory as Forms of Exploration, the working draft of an article by Anne Dalke - November 2005
- Emergence Group Resources, includes notes, readings and podcasts - October 2005
- Interactive Science, a list of interactive science websites created by Yaena Park - Fall 2005
- Things I Didn't Learn, by Rebekah Baglini: People tend to make a lot of assumptions about what it is to be a homeschooler,
many of which focus on what I've missed by not attending school.... - October 2005
- Has a Movie Scene Ever Had Lasting Significance in Your Life?, a survey for a research study - October 2005
- Bryn Mawr Work and Family Project: Summary of Project Findings, a research project examining parents' actual daily experiences of work-family conflict
- October 2005
- The Novelist and the Neurobiologist: A Conversation About Story Telling, by Michelle Herman
and Paul Grobstein - October 2005
- "Soul Making": A Project of Intelligent Amendment, by Anne Dalke - October 2005
- Evolution and Intelligent Design: Perspective and Resources - October 2005
- Evolution and Human Antiquity, by James Wright, Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr - October 2005
- Stories of Teaching and Learning: A Conversation, sponsored by the Center for Science in Society - Fall, 2005
- The 'Control' of Nature in New Orleans, a synopsis of a discussion and PowerPoint slideshow by Catherine Riihimaki and Rheanna Bensel - September 2005
- Ahab's Wife Or, The Star-Gazer: A Novel, by Sena Jeter Naslund, a review by Anne Dalke et al - September 2005
- Going Home to New Orleans: The Cats Are Okay, a first person account of a lifelong resident's return to New Orleans by Lili LeGardeur - September 2005
- Susan White in Togo, an update to the Serendip Togo exhibit, features the experience of Susan White going back to Togo - September 2005
- Science As Story Telling in Action: Evolution, notes from a talk by Paul Grobstein - September 2005
- Singapore/Science Connection, a series of accounts by Al Albano, Emeritus Professor of Physics at Bryn Mawr College, during his semester teaching at Singapore Management University in Singapore - September 2005
- Intelligent Design and the Story of Evolution: No Need for Drawing Lines in the Sand, an essay by Paul Grobstein with a forum for ongoing discussion - September 2005
- Fundamentalism and Relativism: Finding a New Direction, an essay by Paul Grobstein with a forum for ongoing discussion - Summer 2005
- Fall 2005 Courses on Serendip:
- Serendip's 10th Anniversary: An Invitation to an Intellectual Playground, an article by Ann Dixon, written for the Bryn Mawr College Alumnae Bulletin, provides an overview of what Serendip's all about - August 2005
- All the Write Moves: Getting Teens to Express Themselves through Writing, an essay from Ellen Orleans, a creative writing teacher, with an emphasis on openness to different sexualities and experiences - July 2005
- The Theory of Play, a collection of links to materials to help think about exactly what play is and what role it has in biology,
education and life - July 2005
- My Great-Grandaddy was a Monkey, a picture book for kids created by Bryn Mawr students in The Story of Evolution/Evolution of Stories course - July 2005
- The World of Langton's Ant, an "exploring emergence" interactive exhibit - July 2005
- What IS Science?, a resource for science as storytelling in action - July 2005
- Brain and Behavior Institute 2005, a local summer institute for K-12 teachers in the Philadelphia area - July 2005
- Film Discussions Online, in partnership with the Bryn Mawr Film Institute - June 2005
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