Tagged: Core Natural Sciences

To believe or not to believe

Whether you are coming to the course as alover of science or to learn more ABOUT science, CC 212 (course name: “Reality”!) is a place to explore the beauty of quantum physics among many other topics. Eager physicists and philosophers alike enter one of the most challenging fields hoping to make a discovery that could […]

Life’s Prehistory, Summarized

In the latest video created by Core Learning Assistant Gregory Kerr, find a lighthearted and comedic look at recent topics covered in CAS CC 111: Origins. How lighthearted? Well, this will probably be the only time you find Cake Boss, Kevin Spacey, cat memes, involuntary defenestration, and Jar-Jar Binks brought in to help explain rough […]

CC106 Integrated Forum: Bird Song

Today, February 13th, at 2 PM in CAS 211 three biologists will meet for an integrated forum on bird song. Although the forum is for the CC106 class, anyone is welcome. Professor Tim Gardner will discuss the physiology of sound and hearing, Professor Frederick Wasserman will discuss the behavioral function of bird vocalizations and Jelle […]

Announcing Ecofest 2012

This year’s Ecofest (formerly the Ecolympics) is about to begin! Ecofest is a week-long series of events to raise awareness about the human footprint on the environment and the consequent species loss. Here are five reasons why you should sign up and participate: You will have a chance to save our corner of the living […]

Analects of the Core: Feynman on uncertainty in science

I would now like to turn to a third value that science has. It is a little more indirect, but not much. The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I think. When a scientist doesn’t know the answer to a problem, […]