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The Sociopath Next Door

 

As I discussed in one of my posts, I have been watching the new show Dollhouse and it has made me curious about the cutting edge of neuroscience and whether it at all compares to the themes in the show.  The premise of Dollhouse is that people submit themselves, for money, to be a doll for a set number of years.

      A ‘tipping point’ is a critical juncture when isolated events are unified info a significant trend.   In our Emergence course, we explored how what many people consider complex behavior arises from a number of simple entities interacting without an architect or creator.  We have examined many these phenomena in order to better understand how their smaller, simpler components allow for their complex behavior.  In his 2000 book The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell closely examines why change happens as quickly and unpredictably as it often does.

Lost-Wax Bronze castingin the Divergent and Convergent Mode

 

            Iwill be discussing two kinds of sculpting, lost-wax bronze casting and theprocess of clay sculpting, and how they converge and diverge from one another.  I will include a photograph of thebronze sculptures.   However,I do not have a copy of the clay nude female sculpture to which I will bereferring.  It would have been neatto have such a picture to show the difference in the sculpture mediums.

Perpetuation of the Literary Canon

“We write in Latin America to reclaim a space to discover ourselves in the presence of others, of human community –so that they may see us, so that they may love us –to form the vision of the world, to acquire some dimension –so they can’t erase us so easily.  We write so as not to disappear.” -Elena Poniatowska, Wellesley College 2008

April 20, 2009

Story of Evolution/Evolution of Stories—Grobstein and Dalke

Paper #3

Jim Wiltsee
Professor Grobstein
5/9/09
NeuroBio & Behavior
Web Paper III: Memory Consolidation and Efficiency as a Result of Sleep

    The two topics that I have previously wrote on were sleep paralysis and the effect of depression on memory.  After learning the fundamentals of memory and sleep, I now wish to learn more about how the two work together in memory retention and consolidation.  This is especially relevant to my life as I often debate whether to stay up late and study or go to bed earlier and wake up and study.  After researching this topic, sleep is important to the consolidation and effectiveness of memory.