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...brain, and the mind it creates, is designed to seek out patterns in the environment, to interpret those patterns in a meaningful way and to look for causal mechanisms that can explain those patterns. In general, that leads to natural models of the world, but it can also lead you to a supernatural view, which is simply any explanation that goes beyond what we currently understand as the natural boundaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We're Superstitious | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...chance to step in. We're interested in to what extent is stuff built in, and to what extent culture and the environment play a role. What's been remarkable is how, over the past twenty years, our understanding has grown that babies have surprising capacities to interpret the world and make inferences about what they think is going on, in the physical world, about the nature of objects. They're doing all this kind of stuff and no one's telling them how to do it. It's untutored, it's spontaneous. And this leads them to make many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We're Superstitious | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...them. Literally.” At the same time, Biggers’ pieces demand a mental engagement from the viewer. The headboard used in “Sticky Fingers” was a large Afro Pick entirely covered in leather, its top curled into a Black Power fist. Viewers interpret the work depending on their prior understanding of these symbols and their implicit meanings. “We only understand anything from our experiences,” Biggers says. And when viewers bring their diverse experiences to their interactions with artwork, the result is often surprising, even for Biggers...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Multifaceted Artist Biggers Dodges Simple Interpretations | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...these movies. They warn of radiation risk and the dangers of conducting experimental tests on diseases; they offer a satirical commentary on governments that stand idly by in the midst of an apocalypse; they blatantly attack the emergence of materialistic tendencies even under dire circumstances.While Scholzman seeks to interpret the psychology of why viewers keep watching zombie films, he also gives thought to the neurology of zombies. According to Schlozman, because the hypothalamus stimulates the drive to forage, zombies’ eternal appetite and fleshy diet should be related to a problem with this part of the brain. Those exploding...

Author: By Will L. Fletcher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Science on Screen' Reanimates the 'Living Dead' | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...courts are doing what they shouldn't be doing. That's why I call them supremacists. That's the title of my latest book, which is to show how the courts have been stepping out of bounds and pretending we have a living Constitution, which they can interpret according to their own social views rather than the way it was written. (See more about feminism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phyllis Schlafly at 84 | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

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