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Submitted by Robert McCormick on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 1:49pm

If you succeed in gaining their love, your influence will be greater in some respects than that of parents themselves. You have the power to make them kind, benevolent, and humane, or, by your neglect, they may become the reverse of everything that is lovely, amiable, and generou

G. Samuel Hall, the first book published for teachers in the United States in 1892.

Tori's story

Submitted by Victoria Brown on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 1:46pm

I'm Victoria Brown I am a science teacher with the school district of Philadelphia. I am currently finishing up my master's degree at Wilmington College in Secondary Education. I have a bachelor's degree in Chemistry, and I love to teach. My passion is science and I have a very broad category of interest outside of my content area.

Twiki

Submitted by Geneva Tolliferreo on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 1:38pm

Let us begin this endless journey...

The initial purpose of this page was to explore and identify grant resources relative to a two fold study. One aspect of this study funding deals with our brain. The second focuses on diversity.

I. Brain Study Grants: Dana Organization, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Grants, International Brain Research Organization, Parkinson Study Grants via Johns Hopkins University.

INTRODUCTION

Submitted by Teresa Albers on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 1:32pm

Brain and Behavior

Genes, Brains, and Being Social

Submitted by Brain Stories on Sat, 07/07/2007 - 3:28pm

The Gregarious Brain
David Dobbs
New York Times Magazine, July 8, 2007

(excerpts for discussion)

"If a person suffers the small genetic accident that creates Williams Syndrome, [s]he'll live with some fairly conventional cognitive deficits, like trouble with space and numbers, but also a strange set of traits that researchers call the Williams social phenotype or , less formally, the 'Williams personality': a love of company and conversation combined, often awkwardly, with a poor understanding of social dynamics and a lack of social inhibition.

Computer Science Education Summer Institute

Submitted by jd on Sun, 06/24/2007 - 9:26pm

Post on August 14 2007

Today I discovered a Blog by Ashley Dawkins about CSESI 20007 that I hope can continue a discussion not only about CS education topics, but a "meta-discussion" about CSESI itself. I am reminded that this is an open area of investigation, esp. as I work to attend the ICER 2007 conference on CS education research.

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Post on July 27 2007

Childhood Origins of Adult Resistance to Science

Submitted by Brain Stories on Sat, 06/16/2007 - 10:53am

Childhood Origins of Adult Resistance to Science
Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick Weisberg
Science 316: 996-997, 2007 (18 May)
(excerpts for discussion)

Welcome to Brain Stories

Submitted by Brain Stories on Sat, 06/16/2007 - 10:25am

Curious about the brain? About behavior and experiences/feelings, your own and other people's? There's lots on Serendip to help you think about such things, and to encourage you to develop new understandings and new questions about them, including a whole section on Brain and Behavior and another on Mental Health. And, of course, there are new observations being made all of the time, reported in professional journals, newspapers, magazines, books, and on the web.

Brain Stories calls attention to recent findings that seem particularly interesting from Serendip's perspective and provides forum for discussion of them. Your thoughts on these are not only welcome but are an important part of helping everyone, including research scientists, make sense of what we are discovering and have yet to discover about the brain. Like all Serendip forums, this is a place not for conclusions but rather for thoughts in progress, a place to find ideas that might be helpful to you in developing your own stories about the brain and to leave ideas that might be helpful to others in developing theirs.