YANSS Project
Your project for You Are Not So Smart is to develop a short-hand guide to one of the chapters in the first half of the book. You will need to use visuals/story/creativity to make the point that the...
View ArticleWhere are Memories Stored?
MIT discovers the location of memories: Individual neurons. http://cultr.me/GV7bwi
View ArticleWhat is Consciousness?
Read the text and watch the videos on this page. Think: How much of our human-ness is tied to our consciousness? Isn’t a large part of our behavior is automatic, unconscious, subconscious (as evidenced...
View ArticleMore on Imagine
Read and/or listen to this Fresh Air interview with Jonah Lehrer, author of Imagine: How Creativity Works.
View ArticleOutfoxed
Read the following fable and do a critical analysis of it using the 8 questionsOutfoxed. What is the fable saying? Why present the information in this form (fable, comic)?
View ArticleDid Neanderthals sing?
This seemed like a nice connection with our 5 minute assignment today and the psychology assignment. Did Neanderthals sing? Did humans invent music? Is there a music gene?
View ArticleDigitally Addictive Storytelling
I ran across this video on Saturday morning and it occurred to me that in some ways it pulls together a bunch of what we have covered this year. It deals with journalistic thinking, it talks about the...
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