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Can Neuroscience Save the Humanities?
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By Kyle McAuley on Nov 12th, 2011
  1. 21st Century Literacies
  2. Academia
  3. Arts & Humanities
  4. HASTAC Scholars
  5. Careers, Publishing & Tenure
  6. Digital Humanities
  7. Pedagogy & Teaching
  8. Research & Methodologies
  9. Sciences & Neurosciences
  1. brain
  2. neuroscience

In 2010, the New York Times published an essay on what they termed "Neuro Lit Crit," profiling a number of scholars working on the intersection of...
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The Immune System-Brain Connection as a Metaphor for Antivirus Programs and Computers Imagining New Possibilities
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By Karna Mital on May 3rd, 2011
  1. Sciences & Neurosciences
  1. antivirus
  2. brain
  3. immune system
  4. TYBI

This is Karna Mital, a current Duke undergraduate in Cathy Davidson's "This is Your Brain on the Internet" class. Through our class, I heard about...
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Brain Awareness Week @Duke, March 14-20
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By Anna Rose Beck on Mar 10th, 2011
  1. Sciences & Neurosciences
  1. brain
  2. neuroscience

Come Celebrate Brain Awareness Week@Duke March 14-20, 2011

 
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The Open Laptop Midterm
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By Cathy Davidson on Mar 9th, 2011
  1. Collaboration
  2. Internet & Web 2.0
  3. Pedagogy & Teaching
  4. Sciences & Neurosciences
  1. brain
  2. collaboration
  3. hive mind
  4. internet
  5. open laptop exam
  6. pedagogy

When Henry Jenkins gave his students an "open book" exam, one student in the class asked what about an "open laptop exam."  Jenkins notes...
UCLA Information Studies Colloquium: Gary Small on New Technology and the Brain
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By Patrick Keilty on Oct 14th, 2010
  1. Sciences & Neurosciences
  2. Culture
  3. Technology
  1. aging
  2. brain
  3. technology

UCLA Information Studies Colloquium featuring Gary Small on New Technology and the Brain
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Mind Over Matter
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By Cathy Davidson on Sep 16th, 2010
  1. HASTAC Scholars
  2. International & Global
  3. Sciences & Neurosciences
  1. brain
  2. Haiti
  3. HASTAC Scholars
  4. matter
  5. mind
  6. neuroscience
  7. Now You See It
  8. rehabilitation

I just experienced one of those coincidences that turns your head around and makes you see in a different way.  I was in my office with my...
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Shifting cultures of time and learning (video)
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By Ruby Sinreich on Jun 18th, 2010
  1. Sciences & Neurosciences
  2. Culture
  1. brain
  2. culture
  3. future
  4. past
  5. Phil Zimbardo
  6. rewired brain
  7. thinking
  8. time

This is an animation of a brilliant and funny ten-minute talk called The Secret Powers of Time by Stanford professor Phil Zimbardo.  He's an...
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I Love How Stupid We Are
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By Cathy Davidson on Feb 2nd, 2010
  1. Assessment & Evaluation
  2. Sciences & Neurosciences
  1. abstract thought
  2. assessment
  3. body
  4. brain
  5. experiments
  6. grading
  7. mind
  8. value

I'm fascinated by experimental psychology experiments that reveal that we know almost nothing about ourselves--or that our "selves" reveal far...
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Does the Internet Promote New Forms of Communication?
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By Cathy Davidson on Jan 18th, 2010
  1. Collaboration
  2. Sciences & Neurosciences
  3. Culture
  1. brain
  2. collaboration
  3. communication
  4. interaction
  5. ISIS 120
  6. locked-in syndrome

That's one of the "big think" questions in ISIS 120, "This Is Your Brain on the Internet."  To think big, you have to begin by understanding...
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Syllabus This Is Your Brain on the Internet: ISIS 120
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By Cathy Davidson on Jan 17th, 2010
  1. Internet & Web 2.0
  2. Higher Education
  3. Sciences & Neurosciences
  1. 2010
  2. brain
  3. internet
  4. ISIS 120
  5. syllabus

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