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On Classification to and from Various Orders of Magnitude

Submitted by Christina Harview on Sun, 02/03/2008 - 8:09pm

I am taking a class about emerging genres and we have read a book called The Power of Genre by Adena Rosmarin. The following paragraphs are a compilation of the thoughts I have concerning Rosmarin's ideas and our class discussion.

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A New Kind of Science

Submitted by SerendipUpdate on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 3:23pm
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Stephen Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media Inc., Champaign, Illinois, 2002

Commentary by David Berger. David, Swarthmore College 2004 (Economics major with minors in History and Math), attended the New Kind of Science 2003 Conference in Boston in July. Davi's interest was stimulated by conversations with Mark Kuperberg, Professor of Economics

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The Runaway Brain: A Review

Submitted by SerendipUpdate on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 3:22pm

Biology 202
2003 Second Web Paper
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Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People

Submitted by SerendipUpdate on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 3:12pm
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Joan Roughgarden, Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People, University of California Press, 2004

Commentary by Anne Dalke (August 2006).

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Mystery of Consciousness

Submitted by SerendipUpdate on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 3:10pm

John R. Searle
Mystery of Consciousness
New York Review of Books, 1997

This era is at once the most exciting and the most frustrating for the study of consciousness in my intellectual lifetime: exciting because consciousness has again become respectable, indeed almost central, as a subject of investigation in philosophy, cognitive science, and even neuroscience; frustrating because the whole subject is still plagued with mistakes and errors I thought had long been exposed.

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