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Genes, Brains, and Being Social

Submitted by Brain Stories on Sat, 07/07/2007 - 4:28pm
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.

Introducing Ourselves to a Sense of Place

Welcome to the on-line forum area for "Science and a Sense of Place: Locating Ourselves in the World," being held at Bryn Mawr College, July 23-August 3, 2007.

Living by the Stories We Believe

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Thomas King, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative.
University of Minnesota (2003).

Reviewed by Anne Dalke, Bryn Mawr College Department of English.

The Right User's Manual? Learning to Live with Uncertainty

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Nassim Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.
Random House (2007).

Reviewed by Anne Dalke, Bryn Mawr College Department of English.

Standpoint Matters: Keeping the Play in Play

According to feminist standpoint theory, each of us views the world from a particular,
place that is both socially constructed and partial in the knowledge it allows us. We can all benefit from "having a standpoint" on our own standpoint.

 

 


Standpoint Matters:

Keeping the Play in Play

Fellow Traveling with Richard Rorty

 

Paths to Story Telling as Life:
Fellow Traveling with Richard Rorty

Paul Grobstein
2 July 2007

(comments welcome, go to end;
see also Rorty, Non-Foundationalism and Story Telling: A Conversation)

"Right" and "Wrong" in Science

"Right" and "Wrong" in Science (and Elsewhere?):
A Conversation
28 June 2007
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Computer Science Education Summer Institute

Submitted by jd on Sun, 06/24/2007 - 10:26pm

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

Reality, Virtuality, and Education

Between Reality and the Virtual:
Education in the 21st Century

Paul Grobstein

24 June 2007

(notes for a talk in the summer institute on Virtual Thinking) 

 

Acknowledging the virtual in "reality"

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Childhood Origins of Adult Resistance to Science

Submitted by Brain Stories on Sat, 06/16/2007 - 11:53am
Childhood Origins of Adult Resistance to Science
Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick Weisberg
Science 316: 996-997, 2007 (18 May)
(excerpts for discussion)

 

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