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Brain and Cognitive Sciences
The human brain is the most complex, sophisticated, and powerful information-processing device known. Read more about Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT To study its complexities, the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Inst...
Nuclear Science and Engineering
Research and education in nuclear science and engineering first began at MIT in 1948. Read more about Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT The program was one of the first of its kind in the country, and civilians and military personnel flocked to...
IPPEX! (The Interactive Plasma Physics Education Experience)
magnetism, energy, and fusion. Please visit the "Virtual Tokamak" and our "Virtual Magnetic Stability Module" to learn about Plasma and Fusion Containment. >> Quick Menu: ::: Interactive Shockwave Physics ::: Operate a Virtual...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: animal
to understand the origins of the idea that humans are qualitatively (and “qualia-tatively”) different from animals. Aristotle asserted that only humans had rational souls, while the locomotive souls shared by all animals, human and nonhuman, endowed an...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: cognition, animal
from the human species to other species. Nevertheless, in another sense the analogical argument for animal minds is weaker, since the strength of the argument is a function of the degree of similarity between the reference class and the target...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Chinese and Western
interconnection that leads us to the belief that there is some definite ‘I’ that underlies and is independent of the ever-shifting series. But there is only the interacting and interconnected series. This metaphysical concern, of course, had deep practical imp...
Passive Solar Design Guidelines
For example, a basic passive cooling strategy is to permit cooler night air to ventilate a house and cool down the thermal mass (this can be brick, stone, or concrete walls or floors, or large water containers) inside the house. The thermal mass will absorb...
The Romantic Education of W. J. T. Mitchell
symbols or mathematical "sentences" like y=1/x, and the diagrams in Cartesian coordinates that transform these statements into visual images, in this case, a curve descending from an infinite height along the vertical y-axis, turning right and skat...
Chemical and Engineering News: October 31, 2005
Fire" to "University, Inc.," seven brief reviews entice readers. ACS News Comment - Mentoring Puts A Human Face On Chemistry—Yours Outstanding Student Affiliate Chapters Editor's Page Excerpts From Bill Carroll's Blog The Departments Lett...
Reviews of Selected Poetry Collections
movement and life. from Rushworth M. Kidder, "‘Author of Pictures’: A Study of Cummings’ Line Drawings in The Dial." Contemporary Literature 17 (1976): 470-505. Rushworth M. Kidder (1979) [Here Kidder discusses "fragme...
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