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Meera Kohli

How Reliable Are the Social Sciences? - 0 views

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    This article examples whether or not we should take results from social sciences seriously. It compares the studies in social sciences to studies in natural sciences and claims that natural sciences hold a much higher status of credibility than social sciences.
Meera Kohli

Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - 1 views

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=2& This talks about how languages differ based on what they must convey like using feminine and masculine pronouns. (T...

started by Meera Kohli on 05 Feb 14 no follow-up yet
Thomas Rhodes

What is Knowledge? - 0 views

http://www.philosophynews.com/post/2011/09/22/What-is-Knowledge.aspx

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started by Thomas Rhodes on 21 Jan 14 no follow-up yet
Hana Arai

Did 12 Angry Men get it wrong? - 2 views

http://www.avclub.com/article/did-i12-angry-meni-get-it-wrong-83245 This article relates back to the movie we recently watched in class, "12 Angry Men" and considers whether the reasoning used b...

started by Hana Arai on 18 Dec 13 no follow-up yet
Meera Kohli

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/22/health/in-syria-doctors-risk-life-and-juggle-ethics.html - 1 views

This article talks about the situation with doctors in Syria and ethics behind their duty to share evidence of nuclear warfare with American and UN officials versus the risk that puts them in with ...

started by Meera Kohli on 18 Dec 13 no follow-up yet
Martha O'Brien

Considering the humanity of Nonhumans - 0 views

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    This NYtimes article talks about what it means to be a being. How can we define that? Should chimpanzees be given equal liberty and rights as their human care taker?
Hannah Caspar-Johnson

What Does Your Handwriting Say About You? - 1 views

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    This article talks about what your handwriting, something that we consider unconscious and automatic, says about your emotions, personality, and even health.
Luyolo Matyumza

What's Braille Street Art? - 0 views

http://citypaper.net/article.php?What-s-Braille-street-art-166 This article talks about the rising of Braille street art started by Austin Seraphin and Sonia Petruse. The idea of Braille street ar...

started by Luyolo Matyumza on 13 Nov 13 no follow-up yet
Amanda Ramos

Jay-Z Defends Deal with Barneys After Fans Urge Rapper to Break Ties - 0 views

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    This article shows how racial profiling is still relevant to today's society when a African American man tried to purchase a belt from Barney's New York. The man was stopped a few blocks down from the shop, being accused of paying with an unauthorized card. He was told his identification was false and there was no way he could have afforded such an expensive purchase. This reminded me of Blink when Malcolm Gladwell introduced this idea of thin slicing and the intuition and how sometimes one's first thoughts can be wrong. One example that this connected to in Blink was the car salesman, who had to get rid of his initial thoughts about someone and be more open to the buyer and decide who the person is before he made judgements about the buyer.
Martha O'Brien

Kids hungry for art knowledge - 0 views

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    This article talks about the new way to teach art to young kids- letting them see it for themselves and learning how to appreciate it. Teachers aim to get kids to understand why they connect to art or not and what makes them appreciate it more.
Grace Gannon

Students' Knowledge of Arts Found to Decline - 0 views

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    This article discusses the idea that the majority of today's high school students are literalists, not having an appreciation or tolerance for most art. This is a concern in some circles, as many experts believe that exposure to the arts is likely to increase a student's knowledge or sophistication.
Julia Blumberg

Top 10 Skills Children Learn From The Arts - 0 views

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    An interesting article about what the arts can teach children and how it can effect who they are. It's a very interesting perspective.
Jacob Gagliano

Perception vs. Reality - 2 views

youtube.com/watch?v=JoR0bMohcNo&list=PLE3048008DAA29B0A&feature=plpp_play_all

Julia Russ

Good-looking people mess with your memory - 0 views

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    This article talked about how the brain sometimes confuses dishonesty for the truth when a person is trying to present themselves impressively
Sarah Brennan-Martin

Researchers Debunk Myth of "Right-brain" and "Left-brain"Personality Traits - - - Unive... - 0 views

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    Scientists from the University of Utah release research that there is no evidence from brain imaging that people are either left-brained or right-brained.
Ben Fischer

Genetics plays a role in who we choose as friends - 0 views

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    The idea that we choose our mates based on their genes isn't news, but researchers in San Diego now have evidence that we might also be choosing our friends by their genetic endowment as well.
Hana Arai

Does Language Influence Culture? - 1 views

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748703467304575383131592767868 This article investigates whether language shapes our understanding of fundamentals such as space, time and causality.

started by Hana Arai on 07 Feb 14 no follow-up yet
Meera Kohli

Ethical Thinking Should be Rational AND Emotional - 0 views

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hot-thought/201006/ethical-thinking-should-be-rational-and-emotional This article talks about how important reason and emotion are in making ethical decisions. I...

started by Meera Kohli on 27 Feb 14 no follow-up yet
Thomas Rhodes

Toddlers regulate their behavior to avoid making adults angry - 0 views

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    A toddler makes the decision not to play with toys in front of him, because he is aware that it may "aggravate" the other adult in the room.
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