Learning from "From the Inside":
A Neurodiverse World
Paul Grobstein
August 2009
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Quotes from No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive by Lee Edelman, which my prof brought into class [Here and Queer, Prof. Kate Thomas], used to discuss Maurice by Forster [Maurice being a classic gay novel, and unusual for having a happy ending for the main character instead of ending in death].
From Chapter 1 "The Future is Kid...
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Phantom Limbs: A Neurobiological Explanation
Tara Rajan
Severely injuring a digit or limb can result in unrepentant damage and amputation. However, the painful sensations experienced in regard to that limb do not necessarily cease after amputation. The concept of feeling sensations in a limb that...
When reading Olsen's "Silences," I was particularly interested by what she said about female writers and the silencing they've experienced for so long in the literary world. I think even now, it's very difficult for female writers to be taken seriously in "literature" even though they make up a large proportion of the writers in more specialized genres (such as romance novels, young adult novels, children's books, and popular fiction). In my senior year of high school, I took an english...
Sophie Balis-Harris
Web Book Commentary: Soul Made Flesh by Carl Zimmer
As neuroscience continues to grow as a field, and scientists learn more and more about the nervous system, the idea that brain is responsible for much (if not all) of who we are, and how we behave has commonplace in our society. However, the brain's role in thoughts, actions, and senses was not always a near universally accepted theory. In fact, this story of the brain as a highly complex...
“Islam, Democracy, and Development,” a Political Science seminar I took in the fall of 2011, helped me to articulate something I had felt for a long time – that important social justice reforms can be made within the contexts of Islamic law in democratizing countries. This was especially relevant at the time I took the course, which was in the...
In any controversial topic it is so easy to fall on the basis of what is presented to us. Topics like abortion have received a wide scope of investigations and views, but are we willing to go beyond what’s presented to us and dare to disagree with many of these explanations? What are the things that we take into consideration when accepting or denying the idea of abortion—science, lawfulness (or unlawfulness), moral values, and/or religious values? In this assignment I...
In order to take keep this place called Earth beautiful we need to recycle. A wonderful place to start a school program for the recycling of computer cartridges is www.fundingfactory.com. If yoiu decide to get involved in this program please use my school code which is 5866. If you do this our school will receive $50.
Sociologist Marvin Bressler said that the “dogged preservation of age-old religious belief systems ‘encourages decent men to tremble at the prospect of ‘inconvenient’ findings that may emerge in future scientific research. This unseemly anti-intellectualism is doubly degrading because it is probably unnecessary’” (Ellerman). The majority of religions or organized spiritual systems have had to fight against the findings of science, but the most Buddhists have embraced new research; the...
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