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“Changing the Story”:
Using Memes for Social Change
In Anne Dalke’s and Paul Grobstein’s course, “The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories,” other students seemed very troubled by the lack of human agency in Daniel Dennett’s Darwin’s Dangerous Idea. In particular, my classmates were worried about Dennett’s comparison between genes and memes, in which he draws on Dawkins’ definition of memes as “...
I don't know what I knew before and I don't know what I know now. I knew I didn't know anything before and I know I don't know anything now.
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Mental Health and the Brain:
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For my paper, I chose the above photo of the door to the McBride lounge in the basement of Radnor. I wasn't really thinking about the psychology of that choice at the time, but I wonder now if I picked it because my lack of a personal space on campus makes me feel a little shut out of campus life. My paper is centered around how not living on...
Hi everybody! My name is Jordan Schwartz and I'm from Atlanta, GA. I plan to study a combination of sciences that will include a little biology to continue on to law school for bioethics. Also as a huge theatre dork I plan to be in the Shakespeare troupe and having swam competatively all of middle school and high school, I hope to join the BMC swim team. Can't wait to get to know all of you better through the esem :)
Biology 103
2002 Second Paper
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One of my friends from high school has made a habit of putting toilet seat lids down before she flushes. She started doing this about four years ago when she heard that when toilets are flushed, water droplets are expelled from the toilet bowl into the...
If humans had to migrate yearly from one spot on the globe to another thousands of miles away in order to find adequate food and to reproduce, and if the only navigational tools available were landmarks, the earth's magnetic field, the sun and the stars, most people would not have a strong enough sense of direction to make the trip. Yet migratory birds accomplish just this feat twice a year when they travel to their wintering grounds and back to their summer habitats. Each bird has the...
I walked into the woods with some apprehension this morning, expecting to see a lot of devastation during the storm. But the woods are sustaining themselves. There was a dead tree down across my path, easy to move. Lots of leaves had fallen,
but...
Barb is talking right now about restorative justice on the rise....
some notes made while listening:
The program began by describing the “extraordinary contribution,” of the “amazing” Barb Toews, to work that attends to the relation between environmental design and behavior. Barb kicked off the program by talking about “changing the metaphor” from criminal justice as a “boxing match,” to imagining “...
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