Multiple worlds, multiple interpretations: quantum physics and the brain
Very interesting seminar last night by Guy Blaylock on the multiple worlds interpretation of quantum physics. Nice example of the principle that a given set of empirical observations is always subject...
View ArticleLearning to live in/as an evolving system
Paul Krugman's The Politics of Spite is focused on a small issue (current Republican party practices) but speaks importantly to a much more general one, the use in politics of "scorched-earth tactics."...
View ArticleCell death, human death, and evolution
"The quest for eternal life, or at least prolonged youthfulness, has now migrated from the outer fringes of alternative medicine to the halls of Harvard Medical School" ... Quest for a long life gains...
View ArticleDance is hard to see ... the purest form of knowledge?
A month ago I spent several hours watching an opening session in the development of the dance piece "Dance is Hard to See," and talking with choreographer Kathryn Tebordo and the dancers about what I...
View ArticleReplacing blame with generosity in classrooms, inquiry, and culture
Interesting conversation this morning growing out of, among other things, "The Design of Learning Environments," Chapter 6 of How People Learn, together with some college student comparisons of...
View ArticleCause and Affect: Intentionality as First Mover?
I hope in this discussion to explore the notion of "intentionality" and how we, as complex, evolving systems, can make sense of it.read more
View ArticleFeminism, Or How I Learned to Breathe
Here is my reflection/explanation of my final project: read more
View ArticleGenres 2010 - Web Paper 1
These are the first webpapers to emerge from Literary Kinds: Thinking Through Genres, a course about category-making offered at Bryn Mawr College in Spring 2010. One month into the semester, students...
View ArticleGenres 2010 - Web Paper 2
This is the second set of webpapers to emerge from Literary Kinds: Thinking Through Genre, a course about category-making offered at Bryn Mawr College in Spring 2010. Two months into the semester,...
View ArticleGenres 2010 - Web Paper 3
This is the third set of webpapers to emerge from Literary Kinds: Thinking Through Genres, a course about category-making and category-breaking offered at Bryn Mawr College in Spring 2010. Three months...
View ArticleGenres 2010 - Final Papers
This is the final set of webpapers for a course on Literary Kinds: Thinking Through Genre, a course offered @ Bryn Mawr College in Spring 2010. Take a look around, and feel warmly welcome to respond in...
View ArticleEvolving humanity: towards a "third way"
Rationality and social wisdom/cohesion clearly play important roles in inquiry, in education, and in human affairs generally. But there are problems with relying on either alone, and with the two in...
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Neurobiology and Behavior, Spring, 2010, Home Page
Welcome to the home page of Biology 202 at Bryn Mawr College. Pleased to have you here. I'm looking forward to an interesting,enjoyable, productive semester of "getting it less wrong", and hope you are...
View ArticleAlternative perspectives on randomness and its significance
Interesting lunch conversation with Mike Sears over winter break, following up on issues that have arisen in the evolving system open discussions.read more
View ArticleEvolution of science education as story telling and story revising
For years, I've been exploring ways of being a "less wrong" teacher. And that means, among other things, noticing new problems that come along with creating new ways of being.read more
View ArticleFrom evolving systems to world literature and back again?
The Facebook group "Rethinking World Literature" hosts a series of interdisciplinary discussions around the topic of what constitutes "world literature." The Evolving Systems project on Serendip hosts...
View ArticleMaking sense of the world: the need to entertain the inconceivable
An interesting example of the constraints placed on inquiry by stories that make some things difficult to conceive came up in Neurobiology and Behavior last week, during a discussion of the ability of...
View ArticleCultures of ability
"Culture as Disability," a 1995 essay by Ray McDermott and Hervé Varenne has been on my mind for more than a decade. In it, McDermott and Varenne argue compellingly (for me at least) that human...
View ArticleWorld Literature and Neurobiology
The Facebook group "Rethinking World Literature" hosts a series of interdisciplinary discussions around the topic of what constitutes "world literature." The Evolving Systems project on Serendip hosts...
View ArticleIntellectual Property P2P - Fanfiction as Emerging Genre
Intellectual Property P2P – Fanfiction as Emerging Genre read more
View ArticleStorytelling through Serials - How and Why?
I think it would be an interesting idea for us to study serial fiction as a genre.read more
View ArticleCoordination without a leader: flocking
Coordination without a leader:Exploring a model of flocking behaviorPaul Grobstein and Laura CyckowskiAugust 2010 Is the front bird a leader? | Is there a leader at all? | Coordination as an emergent...
View ArticleDiffusion: Heterogeneous mixtures
Diffusion: Heterogeneous mixtures Download model (right click to save) read more
View ArticleThe Evolution of Charlie Chaplin
The Evolution of Charlie ChaplinJulie GorhamWednesday 10th November 2010Writing Assignment #7read more
View ArticleEducating Evolutionarily
Educating EvolutionarilyThe man who has everything figured out is probably a fool. College examinations notwithstanding, it takes a very smart fella to say “I don’t know the answer!”...
View ArticleWhat is the revolutionary potential of comics as a medium?
Hello classmates, professors, and visitors!As the culmination of The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories, I have created a comic in dialogue with Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics that...
View ArticleHalf the Sky
Hey everybody, I don't really know if this has any place in this Ecological Imaginings class, but maybe if we can imagine the preservation of women to be a form of ecology, not unlike the preservation...
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