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The Evolution of Species in Relation to Technology in the 21st Century

Submitted by ccrichar on Fri, 02/13/2009 - 11:50am

 

 

TheEvolution of Species in Relation to Technology in 21st Century

            CharlesDarwin defines Natural Selection as: “This preservation of favourable

Evolution as Story III

Evolution as Story III
10 Feb 2009 (PG)


Switch in story telling style from non-narrative foundational to narrative foundational to emergence

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Evolution as Story II

Evolution as Story II
3 Feb 2009 (PG)



Adaptive diversity can result from undirected variation and "selection" (= differential persistance, regardless of intent)

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Evolving science/science education

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sun, 02/01/2009 - 1:51pm

Several years ago, I wrote an essay on science and science education (Revisiting Science in Culture: Science as Story Telling and Story Revising), partly in response to a student who had heard/read some of my thoughts in class and wrote in 2003 ....

Emergence: Books

Emergence

Biology 361 = Computer Science 361
Bryn Mawr College, Spring 2009

Evolution as Story I

Evolution as Story I
27 Jan 2009 (PG)


Science and literature (and literary studies) are

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Thoughts on Obama's "restore science to its rightful place"

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Thu, 01/22/2009 - 9:40pm

Barack Obama is a serious and committed pragmatist, in the best sense of that word, and I understand his inaugural commitment to "restore science to its rightful place" in exactly those terms. What's important about science is not its certainty about ways to act, but rather its willingness to aggressively acknowledge uncertainty, and so to hold to the fire any presumptions about how to act that derive from any source other than clearly defined and commonly accepted observations to date.

Emergence, 2009 - Intro

Emergence

Biology 361 = Computer Science 361
Bryn Mawr College, Spring 2009

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Narrative is determined not by a desire to narrate but by a desire to exchange. (Roland Barthes, S/Z)

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