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Final Paper - TB

Submitted by jlebouvier on Sat, 05/07/2011 - 3:23pm

GIST Web Paper 5

Before reading this poem I want to explain my thinking behind it. My thesis was about lesbian jokes, so I have been thinking about the use of the turkey baster quite alot. This poem and accompanying etchings display the intractions of gender, information, science, and technology. Though lesbians don't actually use turkey basters to inseminate their partners, the idea of repurposement is essential. People have taken a kitchen tool and made it to be a stand in for a penis. The poem discusses how a person can make quick judgments about gender based on physcial attributes. It also looks at how a simple piece of plastic has been made into a powerful, life giving tool of science.

The 20th Century Plague

Submitted by the.believer on Sat, 05/07/2011 - 2:12pm

Evolution and Literature Web Paper 4

Jenny Cai

Evolit

Paul Grobestein

May 7, 2011

The 20th Century Plague

Final Presentation description

Submitted by jlebouvier on Sat, 05/07/2011 - 2:01pm

My group did a two part performance that happened in and out of class. We all took on anonymous virtual personas and created a chat group about sex robots. Then we posted the resulting chat on this forum and asked the class to read it. In class we had everyone try to figure out which group member was each virtual character. The idea was that we could all be a totally different person online and class members would not be able to distinguish each of us. There were two flaws to this idea though. When given the option of who was behind the screen name, class members automatically looked to personal traits they saw in each of us to make the choice.

The Infinite Stories of English House

Submitted by Dawn on Sat, 05/07/2011 - 1:41pm

Here are some of the stories you all told about English House:

Pink Notecards:

1The room is large and pale yellow – projector, chairs, bodies, screen, the cosmos, bright, warm, cookies, people writing, clementines, up the stairs, out the door, sounds of laughter from another classroom, sounds of laughter from our classroom, sneeze, bless you!

2There are cookies which taste good, sticking to my napkin and my fingers. Tiny chocolate stains I wipe away, transfer from skin to paper. Crumbs crushed in the creases, balled into my fist as I lick my lips.

Evolution in the mind of others?

Submitted by the.believer on Sat, 05/07/2011 - 10:08am

For my final presentation last Thursday, I showed an interview clip with a Haverford College Chemistry major. My thoughts before conducting this interview was to compare how I view evolution now and how someone outside the class would. I asked him five questions which were questions we had pondered and discussed aloud in class.

Questions Asked

1. What are the first 3 words that come into mind when u think of evolution?

A Last Minute Edit

Submitted by dfishervan on Sat, 05/07/2011 - 10:04am

For my final paper, I collaborated with themword to create a dialogue in which we explored our understanding of the social and natural sciences. As a natural science major, I first a wrote about my opinions and current understanding of the social sciences which is included below. themword wrote to the same prompt only she substituted natural for social. We then exchanged papers and videotaped the conversation on social and natural sciences that followed. Please check out themword's 4th webpaper and visit the link to our video to learn more about the discoveries we made in the course of this final web "event."