Like a couple of my other classmates have mentioned in their respective posts, this article was also very difficult for me to understand and process, because the knowledge and lingo used in the text is something I am very unfamiliar … Continue reading
I loved this week’s session about physics and music, despite the fact that I was not naturally keen on the physics of musical instruments. This lecture by Professor Ducas reminded me of the physics labs I had taken in high … Continue reading
The case study allowed me to practice the scientific method for the first time in two and a half years. After talking to the anthropologists, I also realized that scientists are not the only people who approach a question in … Continue reading
When she drew the neuron at the beginning, I became excited. I had remembered the biology I learned in the tenth grade. After sitting in Professor Sommer’s lecture about hearing, music, and the brain, I am eternally thankful for being … Continue reading
During Professor Conway’s lecture, I realized that my home base is in economics, despite the fact that it does not come naturally to me. What I have learned through my economic studies affects the way I see and approach the … Continue reading
The prion continues to be a source of great scientific discovery as well as confusion. From this week’s reading, I delved more into the “protein-only” hypothesis by applying the concept of the scientific method to how the scientists tested such … Continue reading
It often strikes me that scientific humour and metaphors can be very funny. This was certainly the case in some of the readings and videos about prions. I also discovered that the analogy of Dr Jekyll to Mr Hyde is … Continue reading
“The Nature of Science” altered my views significantly on the intellectual meaning behind science. I’d always assumed that science was all-encompassing and defined the world and its choices, but reading the article, I realized that science was actually only isolated … Continue reading
(I apologize for uploading this blog post so late!) The experiment that Oliver Sacks conducted surprised (and amused) me, to say the least, but it also reminded me of encounters with muscle memory that had occurred during my (short) career … Continue reading
“Nature of Science and the Scientific Method” offered perspectives that were quite new to me, a “non-scientist.” The line “Most scientists would not say that science leads to an understanding of the truth. Science is a determination of what is … Continue reading