Phobias: More than just a Fear

 “Without rebirth and resurrections, humanity loses its heroes and loses its capacity for transformation. In order to gain life, the monomythic lesson goes, we must first lose it” (146). ~Michael Paul Mason 

This semester, our class attemptedto tackle the perception of pain. Where exactly does it come from? Moreimportantly, what is pain?

In almost every piece of literatureon the brain that I have encountered during my short time as a neurobiologystudent has described the design of the brain in a rather organized manner,implying that the brain is a perfectly systematic entity. For the bookcommentary assignment, I decided to read The Accidental Mind: How BrainEvolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams and God by David Linden, a scientific novel that contests the idea of thebrain as a perfectly organized entity and how its evolving design overthousands of years lead to certain phenomenon of the brain that cease to amazeeven to this day.

The Melding of Senses:

A Review of The Man Who Tasted Shapes

Isabelle Winer

Contrary to the Teachings of History Teachers:

The Advantage of Forgetting