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Needles and Nerves: How Neuropathy Challenges Notions of a Single Self

Submitted by eambash on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 6:11pm

This feels like my ordinary nighttime routine: yellow light, static screen, wooden chair, pins and needles. Needles and pins? My foot has fallen asleep again – and yet, as that thought comes to me, I immediately question it: has my foot itself really turned off, or is it just that my mind has stopped registering the foot? Is my foot ignoring stimuli from the outside world, or is it simply unable to deliver the stimuli it does receive to my brain? I wonder what the relationship is between numbness and neurology. If I don’t feel a body part, does that automatically mean the part isn’t working? What if no “part” even exists outside of my

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A New Portal to the Brain

Submitted by EB Ver Hoeve on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 2:05pm

 

“Blind since birth, Marie-Laure Martin had always thought that candle flames were big balls of fire. The 39-year-old woman couldn’t see the flames themselves, but she could sense the candle’s aura of heat. Last October, she saw a candle flame for the first time. She was stunned by how small it actually was and how it danced. There’s a second marvel here: She saw it all with her tongue.”

Emerging Genres 2008 - Web Paper 1

These are the first webpapers to emerge from Emerging Genres, a new course offered at Bryn Mawr College in Spring 2008. One month into the semester, students are writing here, most generally, about the human propensity to categorize; more specifically, about the literary categories we call "genres," and even more specifically about a particularly (prototypically novel?) object we've categorized as Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick...

Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in the comment area available at the end of each paper. What strikes, intrigues, puzzles you...what, among your reactions, might be of interest or use to the writer, or others in the class, or others who--exploring the internet--might be in search of thoughtful conversation about how we are making sense of the way literature, and literary theory, portrays the world?

 

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Corporeal Awareness: "You don't need the body to feel the body"

Submitted by nasabere on Tue, 02/26/2008 - 6:08pm
Corporeal Awareness:

"You don't need the body to feel the body"

Biology 202

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Scanning electron microscope image of SARS-CoV-2

Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities has 50 remote-ready activities, which work for either your classroom or remote teaching.

Narrative is determined not by a desire to narrate but by a desire to exchange. (Roland Barthes, S/Z)

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