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Recreating a performance art piece, just for fun

Submitted by Riki on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 3:15pm

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Dennett's Dangerous Idea

Submitted by AnnaP on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 10:20am

In last week’s webpaper, I wrote about the exciting and progressive possibilities that evolution presents for education, and the ways in which people like Paulo Freire already seem to embody some of these ideas. User hlehman wrote about the idea of evolutionary education too, asserting that:

“Evolution is about change and questions, an ongoing process and story to explain why things happen. It is important for children to have a positive exposure to the story of evolution because it allows them to open their minds and see what science does for us.  Science provokes people to think in a new way without limitations or rules.”

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Educating Evolutionarily

Submitted by AnnaP on Thu, 02/10/2011 - 2:08am

Educating Evolutionarily

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool. College examinations notwithstanding, it takes a very smart fella to say “I don’t know the answer!”
                    —Attorney Drummond, Inherit the Wind (1955)

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The Evolution of Charlie Chaplin

Submitted by Julie G. on Thu, 12/09/2010 - 2:22pm

 

The Evolution of Charlie Chaplin

Julie Gorham

Wednesday 10th November 2010

Writing Assignment #7

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Questioning the Scientific Method: Ethical Issues in Clinical Trials

Submitted by lbonnell on Mon, 10/18/2010 - 10:52am

 

Questioning the Scientific Method: Ethical Issues in Clinical Trials

 

 

Coordination without a leader: flocking

Coordination without a leader:

Exploring a model of flocking behavior

Paul Grobstein and Laura Cyckowski

August 2010

 Is the front bird a leader? | Is there a leader at all? | Coordination as an emergent property of a distributed system | What's actually going on in the flocking model? | And in general .... ?

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Would You Like to Swing on a Star? Reflections on the Evolving Systems Project Year One

Submitted by alesnick on Mon, 05/24/2010 - 9:21pm

 

Would You Like to Swing on a Star?

Reflections on the Evolving Systems Project Year One

Alice Lesnick, May 24, 2010

 

Q: When the cosmos talks to us in its own terms, what does it say?

A: Notice that I am bigger and stranger than anything you have yet imagined based on your experiences to date.  And the more you experience and imagine, the bigger and stranger I will get.

-- Evolving Systems Web Forum, 7/31/09

 

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“To Speak of Tales and Fables": The Imposition of Narrative in Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: and Other C

Submitted by Hannah Silverblank on Thu, 05/13/2010 - 5:47pm

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Neural and Cultural Patterns of Love

Submitted by Bo-Rin Kim on Sat, 05/08/2010 - 1:32pm


    Love is one of the most popular topics discussed among different age groups and across different cultures. Its entrancing and addictive nature has encouraged scientists to explore the neurological basis of this emotional phenomenon. However, this paper questions the perspective that love arises from a set pattern of activity in a number of designated neural structures. It instead proposes that the definitions of love set in place by different cultures influence and give rise to unique patterns of neural activity that lead to the experience of love. Thus, love is unique to the individual and does not arise from a generalized pattern of neural activity.

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Narrative is determined not by a desire to narrate but by a desire to exchange. (Roland Barthes, S/Z)

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