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...dreaming, humans must do it for the same reason that all mammals have done it for more than 100 million years; any theory must make as much sense when applied to a rabbit as to a person. In the same Darwinian vein, sleeping and dreaming must serve important functions because they're vulnerable states and natural selection would have eliminated them if they didn't provide compensating benefits. In the ancestral environment, human life was short and perilous; ever-lurking predators threatened survival and reproductive success. The biological function of dreaming, argues Antti Revonsuo, professor of psychology at the University...
...break out of its malaise," says Robert Stickgold, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School's Center for Sleep and Cognition. Recently, scientists have abandoned stagnant theories of dreaming and postulated new and intriguing ones, with experiments underway in various parts of the world aimed at establishing the function of our nightly hallucinations. If recent work suggests anything, it's that there is such a function, or more than one, and that dreams aren't just neural waste. They may improve the quality of our sleep. They may prepare us for danger. They may embed memories. There are more...
...Effecting her and her task force’s recommendations will be critically important in the face of many professors’ tendency to devote scant attention to pedagogy in favor of research, writing, and publication. Though scholarship is no doubt vital to any modern research university, it cannot function as such without quality instruction from devoted researchers. Still other achievements include her work to ensure that all Ph.D. students have adequate dissertation funding, to unify “best practices” from the highly modular and disconnected graduate programs, and to improve access to financial and tracking data...
...Groovy Snack range by Joanne Windaus Stylishly sleek and functional, Windaus' work is the Audi of the porcelain world. The British-born, Bauhaus-influenced designer, who has lived in Germany for 30 years, brings unusual geometries to everyday items. Yet these finely corrugated pieces, equally at home with sushi or Continental breakfast, show that form can follow function. www.joannewindaus.com...
...that the two should be consistent and mutually reinforcing. This was as much a practical position as a philosophical one, deriving from both Dewey’s work as a scholar and from his experience as a teacher. He believed deeply in the social creation and function of knowledge, but he also believed something more pedestrian and empirical, that human beings simply learn best when they learn together...