Photo by Malcolm Browne By Zat Rana / 01.21.2018 The Reality of Reality On June 11, 1963, Thích Quảng Đức slowly burned himself to death. Đức was a Vietnamese Monk, and the act was a form of protest motivated by the unequal treatment of the Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government at the time. While what went down that[…]
Image from event-horizon / Creative Commons Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 02.25.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief 1 – Introduction to Sensation 1.1 – Introduction Sensation involves the relay of information from sensory receptors to the brain and enables a person to experience the world around them. 1.1.1 – Overview Sensation and perception are two separate processes[…]
Image from The Blue Diamond Gallery / Creative commons Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 02.26.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief 1 – Introduction to Learning 1.1 – Defining Learning Learning involves a change in behavior or knowledge that results from experience. 1.1.1 – What is Learning? Learning is an adaptive function by which our nervous system changes[…]
“I am fascinated by how people work, why we do what we do, and why we think what we think,” says senior and Marshall Scholar Liang Zhou / Photo by Ian MacLellan MIT senior and Marshall Scholar Liang Zhou wants to elucidate the neural basis for our thoughts and intuitions. By Fatima Husain / 02.01.2018 Halfway[…]
By Dr. Stephen Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris Zucker – Dean of Art and History, Khan Academy Harris – Faculty Emeritus of Art History, Khan Academy About Leonardo The heavens often rain down the richest gifts on human beings, but sometimes they bestow with lavish abundance upon a single individual beauty, grace and ability, so that[…]
Saint Mark’s Square and the Doge’s Palace seen from the water, Venice (Italy) (photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) By Dr. Heather H. Horton / 08.09.2015 Visiting Assistant Professor in the History of Art and Design Pratt Institute Venice – Another world Petrarch, the fourteenth-century Tuscan poet, called Venice a “mundus alter” or “another world,” and the city[…]