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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.

Where, when and how does interdisciplinarity matter? The example of Gender and Science

Where, when and how does interdisciplinarity matter?
The example of Gender and Science

"Madame Curie" (1943)

The First First Friday in the
Bryn Mawr College
Faculty Club...

Mantrafesto Part II

-"The only genuine hope of feminist liberation lies with a vision of social change which challenges class elitism."
-Class elitism is a mechanism of power that divides women.
-Dividing women can perpetuate the patriarchy.

Dear friends,

Allow me to preface this web event with a brief description of what is to come, and what my motives are for presenting it. I’ve always been fascinated by the idea behind the famous Aristophanes play Lysistrata, in which one woman convinces all the women of Greece to refuse their husbands sex until the men end the Peloponnesian War. Would a plot like this work in the real world? Has anyone ever tried such a thing? I wondered how I could...

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 to multiple interpretations, ie that there is always a perspectival or "subjective" element in scientific stories. And an...

Biology 202
2006 Book Commentaries
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The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge

Gray Vargas

In this wide-ranging book, Changeux takes up the challenge, much as this class did, of explaining how truth and reality are present in the brain and its activity. He is interested in how consciousness arises and...

Welcome to the course forum area for Making Sense of Ourselves in an Evolving Universe, an Emily Balch Seminar being offered to first-year students @ Bryn Mawr College in Fall 2010. This is a conversational place, intended for thoughts-in-progress, and you are free to write about anything you found interesting in our class last week. But if you need something to get you started: why is there a diversity of...

Meditation in the Classroom