Here’s an update on my quest for BCA funding. I met with Professor Robert Cherry yesterday who Dean Wilson recommended I speak with to be the advisor.  He is certainly an interesting fellow, and sugar coats nothing.  He suggested I speak with Dean Morales about the likelihood of actually getting the money.  I sp0ke with […]

Hey guys, Sorry for double-posting, but here’s the link to a NYTimes article that I was discussing with my philosophy friend, which talks about the decline of humanities and the need for the fields to be remarketed. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/books/25human.html?_r=1 Chris

Hey guys, Greg has inspired me with his pieces to share some of my thoughts that I wrote about in an Op-Ed article for my school newspaper.  Let me know about some of your thought on the issue. (Might be a bit long…) ************************************************* The Race for Race By Christopher Eng Spanning the skybridge, the […]

UPCOMING CONVERSATION Cultural Power: Art Tuesday, March 3, 2009 7:00 pm, The Amie and Tony James Gallery The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street New York, NY 10016 Film maker Peggy Ahwesh and poet & novelist Eileen Myles launch the Great Issues Forum spring programs with an intimate discussion about the power […]

Join us for a screening of the new one-hour documentary Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist, a true story by Richard and Carole Rifkind about the struggle to become a scientist and the satisfaction of discovery. Mixing humor with heartbreak, the film tells an intensely dramatic story about a trio of irrepressible student scientists […]

While talking with a fellow named Aaron Gavin today, a crisis in my personal philosophy of science arose. I genuinely find a great deal of truth in Paul Feyerabend’s claims, particularly that scientific thought is not absolute truth.  Specifically, I believe this is based in the fact that we cannot look at science, or anything […]

So, to those of you who go to BC will probably agree with me that dealing with the red tape is a part of daily life when dealing with the administration.  I think I have figured out a clever way around it! I have been hunting down a source of funding for NCUR that I […]

Please see my comment on the Valentine’s Day post.  Sorry to keep going, but here’s another bit of a rant.  It’s not entirely pertinent to my thesis, at least not in the sense of clarifying my argument and conclusions.  Rather, it’s a bit of thought on the validity of neuroscience even now. I think it […]

Here is an article entitled “Anti-Love Drug May be the Ticket to Bliss” from last month’s New York Times that I thought might be of interest on this strange day of celebrating all things romantic: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/science/13tier.html?n=Top%2fNews%2fScience%2fColumns%2fFindings Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you! Lee

Hi everyone, It has been a little while since I have come across a piece of scholarship that has radically altered my approach to thinking and writing about the two works in my thesis.  I have recently gained a greater familiarity with the concepts of Lacan, which have had this effect on me. One of […]