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Week of October 19, 2009 --- Brielle Stark

Observations

Project Name: Brain and Behavior I

Initiating the Project

Discussion Questions:

which one?=)

Observations from 10/21/09

Emily Lovejoy

Observations from 10/20/09

Emily Lovejoy

Today I was in teacher B's classroom and the students were led through a brainstorming lesson.  Each student was given a piece of paper and pencil, and when the teacher said a topic, the students were to write down as many things as they could think of.  Spelling didn't matter as much as writing down good ideas.  The word that Teacher B gave the students was "night."  Students came up with some of the following ideas:

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"The quest for eternal life, or at least prolonged youthfulness, has now migrated from the outer fringes of alternative medicine to the halls of Harvard Medical School" ... Quest for a long life gains scientific respect

I wonder if the involved researchers at the Harvard Medical School and elsewhere are paying any attention to the broader implications of related research

Paul Krugman's The Politics of Spite is focused on a small issue (current Republican party practices) but speaks importantly to a much more general one, the use in politics of "scorched-earth tactics."  So too with a recent news article: Another Landlord Worry: Is the Elevator Kosher?  Describing a current controversy about shabbas practices, it quotes a New Yorker as saying “Just because there is one opinion doesn’t mean that it is everyone’s opinion. One of the wonderful things about Judaism is that there are competing opinions about everything.” 

Observations from 10/6/09

Emily Lovejoy