Serendip is an independent site partnering with faculty at multiple colleges and universities around the world. Happy exploring!

A Random Walk with Serendip

Randomness is cool and interesting... and randomness can be important too, from biological diversity to artistic innovation. Here, have fun with 10 random pages from Serendip. Does "mixing" them together create some new ideas? Feel free to return another day to find another random walk, or play Chance in Life and the World for a new perspective on randomness and order.

collaboration vs. conflict

Is that a necessary dichotomy? Reading Steve Chase's Changing the Nature of Environmental Studies made me think a lot about my relationship with and confusion around social change and activism. I have this constant fight within myself about whether I'm being too radical or not radical enough - and then I worry that I'm being too wishy-washy, not fully committing to working with one faction or another and therefore feeling totally useless. I read Steve Chase's account of the...

Math Project- Quadratic Equations

Use Alice or Scratch programs to design “Finding the solutions of Quadratic Equations”

Use the following given quadratic equations

-3x2 + x -2 = 0

3x2 + 5x = 0

3x2 = 6

3x2 + 5x = -1

x4 - 9x2 + 8 = 0...

In class we discussed sex-selection and on some of the posters the idea of natural versus artificial was written down. Many people consider IVF and sex-selection and unnatural process that tampers with the biological equilibrium. IVF pregnancies are considered “artificial”. I am curious when the line between natural and artificial was initially drawn. Since everything that humans make, comes from nature in the first place, when does an object or an...

This is a reflection, dialogue, and resource page for a group of projects, including summer internships, held in common by community leaders and learners in Dalun and Bryn Mawr/Haverford. Please find spaces here for sharing ideas, making connections, and posting links.

Below are some resources to inform you about the village of Dalun; NGO partners of...

Expectations and Assumptions

As I arrived and settled into my position on the bench, I did so with some expectations , chief among them was that I was going observe a huge amount of change in observations in comparison to my last week two weeks ago . I expected this change to be part of the ongoing and inevitable march of autumn into winter. In some ways this was true as there was not one uniform color scheme for the leaves in the visible tree line, I had a much better view of Haverford Road from...

The Uglier Side of Paradise

By Nicole Gervasio

In the city where I come from in New Jersey, there are no roses or daisies, but sometimes you’ll find a dandelion straightening up from the spines in the sidewalk. Cars shoulder the street like bumpers in a bowling lane since nobody has garages. The houses are not as close to each other as they are in many other parts of Trenton; many are either semi-detached duplexes or free-standing row...

3-pp essay due on-line

Is this thing on?

Hey folks...I'm Graham Phillips, a 5th/6th grade science teacher from The Baldwin School right here in Bryn Mawr, PA. I teach chemistry/physics, primarily, and have taught up to 8th grade in Science and up to 12th grade in Mathematics.

As you can see from my picture, I love to...

My Thoughts On Waring

Does economic prosperity equal environmental destruction? Waring seems to think so. She talks about how CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) are actually counted as economic growth, not environmental degradation, and about carbon trading as an economic activity, much more like a service than an action that might impact various ecosystems. However, I think that her outlook on our relationship with nature (as humans wishing for economic prosperity) is quite dismal and I'm not so sure I completely agree...

To Conform or Not To?

Notes towards Day 22
Critical Feminist Studies

Gertrude Stein and Marilyn Hacker

The Lesbian Poet: To Conform Or Not To Conform?

(Okay, so that's not actually the title for the class,
but it totally...