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*Rescheduled* Resilience, Empathy, Plasticity: Women in Neuroscience
Resilience, empathy, and plasticity are important parts of the human experience, but how do these traits actually emerge biologically? Continue reading “*Rescheduled* Resilience, Empathy, Plasticity: Women in Neuroscience”
C2ST and 2Blades Present: Food Evolution
Amidst a brutally polarizing debate marked by passion, suspicion and confusion, FOOD EVOLUTION, from Academy Award®-nominated director Scott Hamilton Kennedy (The Garden, Fame High, OT: Our Town), explores the controversy surrounding GMOs and food. Traveling from Hawaiian papaya groves to banana farms in Uganda to the cornfields of Iowa, the film, narrated by esteemed science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson, wrestles with the emotions and the science driving one of the most heated arguments of our time. In the GMO debate, both pro- and anti- camps claim science is on their side. Who’s right?
*CANCELED* Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. Inclement weather has resulted in this program being canceled, stay tuned to c2st.org and sign up for our email list for further updates regarding rescheduling of the program at a later date. Refunds will be issued shortly.
What can we learn from alien worlds? We humans, with our “project of civilization,” are a kind of cosmic teenager. We have power over ourselves and the planet, but no model to follow. In his talk, Dr. Adam Frank will show how our fate can best be understood in light of the stars. Continue reading “*CANCELED* Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth”
Illinois Embraces Indigenous Legacy Through Ethnobotany
By Katie Rice, Medill Reports Chicago
Originally Published: http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/chicago-embraces-indigenous-legacy-through-ethnobotany/
When Gina Roxas was about four years old, she was hospitalized with a diagnosis of pneumonia.
Heartbroken at being separated from her family, she ripped the IVs out of her arms, cried and refused to eat while in the hospital. Her condition deteriorated, and doctors had to restrain her.
One day, her father came to visit her and told doctors he’d see what he could do about his daughter’s illness.
“He grabbed me, wrapped me in a blanket and walked out the door,” Roxas said. “And he [carried me to] my great-grandmother’s (house) and gave me to her. And she healed me. She healed me with her prayers, with her teas and with her herbal rubs. It’s not scientifically proven that I was healed, but I’m still here, right?”
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The Gift of Science
