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BBI 2007 Session 3

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 7:12am

Review

Science as loopy, story telling/revising rather than truth/facts

"I was intrigued when asked to decide rather or not the earth was round or flat. At first this seemed to be an easy question to answer based on what we are taught but by the end of the disscussion I was left questioning I had learned. We were given several more questions of this type and at the end I always questioned what I had been taught." .... Deidre

K-16 Collaborations: Brain and Behavior

Welcome to the home page of the Brain and Behavior Institute at Bryn Mawr College for the year 2007.

BBI 2007 Session 2

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sun, 07/08/2007 - 6:13pm

BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR INSTITUTE 2007

Being a Scientist/Explorer/Creator (Theory):
Living (and Learning/Teaching) in Virtuality

Review

BBI 2007 - home

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sun, 07/08/2007 - 10:05am

Brain and Behavior Institute 2007

Genes, Brains, and Being Social

Submitted by Brain Stories on Sat, 07/07/2007 - 4:28pm

The Gregarious Brain
David Dobbs
New York Times Magazine, July 8, 2007

(excerpts for discussion)

"If a person suffers the small genetic accident that creates Williams Syndrome, [s]he'll live with some fairly conventional cognitive deficits, like trouble with space and numbers, but also a strange set of traits that researchers call the Williams social phenotype or , less formally, the 'Williams personality': a love of company and conversation combined, often awkwardly, with a poor understanding of social dynamics and a lack of social inhibition.