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Dissociative Identity Disorder: Sense of Self, Social Stigmatization, and the Question of Definition

Submitted by Anna Dela Cruz on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 12:59pm

Senior Seminar in Biology and Society
September 29, 2009
Anna Dela Cruz

Dissociative Identity Disorder: Sense of Self, Social Stigmatization, and the Question of Definition
the three faces of eve

H1N1

Submitted by JyL on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 10:10am

Biology 103 Web Paper 1

Classification and the Gender Binary: Understanding Intersexuality

Submitted by achiles on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 9:57am

Anna Chiles

This I Believe

Submitted by ED on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 9:55am

I believe in recycling.

Yes, I have always loved the great outdoors, yes, I have always had a penchant for dirt and bugs and for clipping the plastic from six packs so animals wouldn’t get strangled. But, I never thought I would come to live and breathe the world as consciously as I do today. It wasn’t a choice I made, but rather an unexpected event that showed me my starkest flaw—attachment—and gave me my greatest gift: a most necessary lesson in science.

When I was five, we sold the family’s gray caravan and I cried for days at the loss. When I was twelve I cut my hair for the first time—three inches off—and wept at that loss as well.

Who Needs Sleep?

Submitted by heatherl18 on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 9:41am

There are twenty-four hours in a day. This is a fact of which every human - and especially every college student - is well aware. Unfortunately, it never seems as though twenty-four hours is completely enough for everything that needs to get done. It does not help that approximately (allegedly) eight of these hours are dedicated to being completely unconscious. Sleep is such an essential part of the human routine that many of our non-daylight hours are devoted to it. And yet, while we understand the rejuvenated feeling of a good night's sleep or the tired crabbiness of a pre-coffee early morning, no one seems to understand the actual purpose of sleep itself.

Steroids in Baseball

Submitted by jingber on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 9:36am

Biology 103 Web Paper 1

Steroids in Baseball

It is common knowledge that steroids have ruined modern baseball. Thousands of books and articles have been written on the scourge of what was once an innocent game, played by men with nothing more than pure kindness and goodness in their hearts. A nation once enthralled while watching Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa chase Roger Maris’ longstanding record of 61 home runs in a season