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Raven Harris
Neurobiology and Behavior
Thinking Outside of the Brain
Contemporary scientists brand the brain as the organ responsible for thought process and decision making. While there is little scientific evidence to suggests a structure within the brain which is responsible for intuition [one which our “thinking” brain would oppose], our social history suggests otherwise. When forced with the task of making a decision, loved ones suggest we...
Dakota Fisher-Vance
13 December 2010
Biology in Society Senior Seminar
First reader: Professor Grobstein
Second reader: Professor Davis
“The Science of Science Education”
I. INTRODUCTION
As time progresses, the influence of science on one’s life and the need for both non-scientists and scientists to possess some familiarity with this field continues to intensify. Despite the...
Consciousness is a state of awareness of self and the environment and is determined by the level and content of this awareness, also referred to as arousal and awareness respectively (1). Consciousness itself takes many forms, as can be seen in the many combinations of level and content of awareness. When describing comas and vegetative states, people often use the terms interchangeably and freely without regard for the differences in consciousness of patients in these states. This however...
I am a great fan of writing and I use (and have used) writing frequently in my daily life for the purpose of clarifying my thoughts, developing ideas, understanding a circumstance, situation, or event, putting my feelings to words for analysis, reflecting on the past, emotional release, mental release, and release in general. "Words" for me have...
Abandoning Despair
Picture this: A city where some houses stand in water that has risen to the windows of their second floor. Other houses do not stand at all but now only...
“You can’t plant in the spring and leave in the summer.” Bruce Grill said at the Harriton House when introducing us to the cluttered community garden (October 2012). “The plants grow everywhere”, Bruce continued. The plants were everywhere indeed. The tomatoes and the squash were mingled together in a corner and some sort of red flowers were hiding among tall grass, which people define as “weeds”. However, isn’t the community garden a great example of “wild gardens” Michael Pollan is talking...
(Sorry it took me a while to figure out how to get this in here as I made it in Word). This is an idea of a chart that I have as a way of thinking about the layerd and overlapping areas of knowledge that exist within our Cannery experience. My memo talks about a lot of what we discussed in class today, and I modified this diagram per Sarah's suggestion, adding another circle for the knowledge that comes with being in prison. The way I've placed the circles suggests that the knowledge we have...
For this paper, I have played upon the genre of the "graphic narrative" in order to lay out my thoughts. (Haha, wasn't that puny?) Thinking about my call for a more structured definition of genre, I have thought about WHY it is important, rather than think of how it can't be done. As we've found, thinking about the "how" seems to lead to dead ends.
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