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...postgraduate assistant Iain Jackson are challenging is the interpretation of a variety of classic experiments begun in the mid-1980s in which babies were shown physical events that appeared to violate such basic concepts as gravity, solidity and contiguity. In one such experiment, by University of Illinois psychologist Ren??e Baillargeon, a hinged wooden panel appeared to pass right through a box. Baillargeon and M.I.T.'s Elizabeth Spelke found that babies as young as 31/2 months would reliably look longer at the impossible event than at the normal one. Their conclusion: babies have enough built-in knowledge to recognize that...
...shouldn't be surprising that research on consciousness is alternately exhilarating and disturbing. No other topic is like it. As Ren?? Descartes noted, our own consciousness is the most indubitable thing there is. The major religions locate it in a soul that survives the body's death to receive its just deserts or to meld into a global mind. For each of us, consciousness is life itself, the reason Woody Allen said, "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it by not dying." And the conviction that other people can suffer and flourish...
...dozens of other much loved children's books. When we meet her, she is a superannuated virgin, living with her well-to-do parents, writing about her "friends," the woodland creatures. She claims to talk to them, which may account for some of the twitchiness that occasionally mars Ren??e Zellweger's performance in the title role. Potter, however, is made of willful stuff. She finds a publisher (Ewan McGregor) for her books, falls in love with him, achieves best-sellerdom and, in this telling of her life, status as a largely overlooked feminist icon and an early environmentalist...
...cast. At Nov. 10 performance, during his “I have fallen and I can’t get up” sermon, members of the audience could even be heard facetiously clapping, and chanting “Amen” in response to his booming voice. Ren??e A. Ragin ’10 who played both the welfare social worker and Hester’s oldest daughter, Bully, successfully portrayed the frigid and intimidating adult character. However, her depiction of Bully, a tough kid from the streets was far less persuasive because she seemed so clean...
...Calla” Videt ’08 and produced by Ben M. Poppel ’09, which is playing at the Loeb Ex through next Saturday, Nov. 4. The play unfolds nearly in real time, depicting the course of a dinner party thrown by Paige (Ren??e L. Pastel ’09) in honor of her husband Lars (Arlo D. Hill ’08) and the success of his philosophical self-help book. Their conversation starts out icy and is not improved by the arrival of Lars’s ex-lover Wynne (Julia...