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Lateralization in Horses

Submitted by Lili on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 10:52pm

Hemispheric Lateralization in Horses

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Information on the Causes of Congenital Disorders

Submitted by cejensen on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 7:09pm


    Someone dear to me was born with a number of physical (not mental) birth defects known together as VACTERL Association. This person spent a great deal of time in the hospital as a baby, and had a number of surgeries at a young age. Now this person is perfectly healthy, but this person is still, albeit to a relatively small degree, visibly “different.” Ever since I was quite young, I have struggled with the reason why. It has always seemed frustratingly unjust to me that most people are born with “regular” bodies, while some, seemingly randomly, are not. Here, I will explore the causes of disorders like VACTERL, and also look into the differences, if any, between “genetic” and “developmental” birth defects.

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Why do we cry?

Submitted by vdonely on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 6:55pm

 

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Introduction to Evolving Systems: Beyond Emergence to Agency

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 3:54pm

The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics

Evolving Systems:
Open Conversations

Introduction to Evolving Systems: Beyond Emergence to Agency

Paul Grobstein
8 October 2009


The issue:

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Pain for Pleasure

Submitted by jrieders on Sat, 09/26/2009 - 6:58pm

Senior Seminar in Biology and Society

Is Pain a Pleasure, and Why?

September 29, 2009

 

How many of us were glued to the television weeks after 9/11? How many of us slow down when passing a car crash? How many of us have a favorite crime show?

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Notes Towards Day 10: "Seeing Gender"

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Sat, 09/26/2009 - 11:38am

Notes Towards Day 10: "Seeing Gender"


 

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Notes Towards Day 9: Ordering the Chaos of Dreaming

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Sat, 09/26/2009 - 11:31am

Notes Towards Day 9:
Ordering the Chaos of Dreaming

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Notes Towards Day 10: "Allow for Serendipity"

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Sat, 09/26/2009 - 9:31am

Notes Towards Day 10: "Allow for Serendipity"

I. coursekeeping
those papers due Fri? reporting in on topic-defining, progress in researching....?
3-pp. paper reporting on current studies done on your health choice:
how are most college students handling the choice you are confronting?
how best to present the information you find?
find three web sources; look @ HOW they present the info (causes? correlations?

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Notes Towards Day 9: The Paradox of Choice

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Sat, 09/26/2009 - 9:10am

Notes Towards Day 9

I. Start by taking three surveys from The Paradox of Choice:
*are you a maximizer or a satisficer? (p.80)
*the regret scale (p.87)
*the subjective happiness scale (p. 196)
can we chart the correlations?

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Kristin's Origin Stories

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Wed, 09/23/2009 - 8:22pm

Kristin's Origin Stories

Origins/intersections/categories

Personal/political/intellectual

Heritage: Photo of my great-grandmother in her 90s with her skis behind her, in northern Sweden, above the Arctic Circle—you can see the tradition of physical robustness and survival that I come from.


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