Archive for the 'Human Body' Category

Close Encounters of the Brainy Kind

Marian Diamond keeps her brain in a hatbox—not her own brain, but the preserved human brain she shows in her famously popular anatomy lectures at the University of California, Berkeley. Holding the brain gently in her gloved hands, Professor Diamond introduces her students (including 1.5 million YouTube viewers) to this cell mass that weighs only […]

Posted in Topics: Educator Profiles, Howtosmile.org Web site, Human Body, Human Senses and Perception, Life Sciences

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Mapping data to change minds: a lesson from 1854

With free tools like Google Earth and mapbuilder so widely available, these days it seems that everyone’s a mapmaker.
But mapping data to location in an effort to reveal previously unseen connections—now that’s a taller order.
(To introduce learners to the concept, howtosmile.org’s data mapping activities are a good place to start.)
An excellent example of the power […]

Posted in Topics: Geography, Human Body, Medicine, Statistics, The Nature of Science

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