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Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

Submitted by SerendipUpdate on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 2:25pm

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	Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism. Vintage, 2005 Commentary by Paul Grobstein (August 2006).

Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity

Submitted by SerendipUpdate on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 2:21pm

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	Rebecca Goldstein, Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity. Schocken, 2006 Commentary by Anne Dalke, August 2006.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Submitted by SerendipUpdate on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 2:13pm

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	Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998

Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

Submitted by SerendipUpdate on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 2:06pm

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	Antonio Damasio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, Avon Books, 1994 Commentary by Paul Grobstein. Paul is a member of the Biology Department at Bryn Mawr College and co-founder of Serendip. This page was created in 1996 and includes links to comments on the book by

Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks

Submitted by SerendipUpdate on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 2:01pm

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	Mark Buchanan, Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks, W.W. Norton and Co., 2002 Commentary by Paul Grobstein.

Serendip's Bookshelves

Submitted by SerendipUpdate on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 1:56pm

Serendip's Bookshelves The web is a novel addition to rather than a replacement for other forms of human communication and interaction. Here is a listing of books and journal articles which are important to Serendip's evolution, with commentary and continuing discussion by Serendip creators and visitors aimed at making the books and journal articles more active parts of human exchange.

Annett, Marian - Handedness and Brain Asymmetry: The Right Shift Theory (James Damascus)

Beck, Aaron - Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders (Martin)

Begley, Sharon and Schwartz, Jeffrey - The Mind & The Brain: Neuroplasticity and The Power of Mental Force (AKyan)

Begley, Sharon and Schwartz, Jeffrey - The Mind & The Brain: Neuroplasticity and The Power of Mental Force (Whitney McDonald)

The Power and Limits of Synecdoche

Notes Towards Day 4 of Emerging Genres

The Power and Limits of Synecdoche

"a stage director ... ambitiously attempts to put on a play by
creating a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse...."

reading and talking notes

Social Neuroscience: Current Understandings and Future Directions

Submitted by Ian Morton on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 12:31am

Social Neuroscience: Current Understandings of the Social Condition and Future Directions

Ian Morton, 2007
Paul Grobstein

Evolution/Science: Inverting the Relationship Between Randomness and Meaning

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Mon, 01/28/2008 - 6:19pm

The past Sunday's NY Times Book Review has a review of a book by Anne Harrington called The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine. Its interesting in its own right, directly relevant to a course I'm currently teaching, but connects in interesting ways to some other things bubbling around as well. The book is reviewed by Jerome Groopman, a cancer specialist, who writes ....