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Penn Fine Arts Students' Exhibit and Auction Set
Penn Fine Arts Students' Exhibit and Auction SetWHO:University of Pennsylvania Master of Fine Arts candidatesWHAT:Exhibition and Auction of artwork of the MFA Class of 2004 WHEN:Exhibition: Nov. 17-28, 2003. Auction: Nov. 21, 5-9 p.m.WHERE:University of PennsylvaniaMeyerson Hall Gallery34th and Walnut streetsPenn's Master of Fine Arts exhibit highlights the work of 21 emerging artists in The School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. More than 50 works of art will be available for auction.
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One-click shopping for illegal drugs
The advance of the Internet has made purchasing everything from clothes to groceries virtually hassle-free. Now, add the purchase of illegal drugs and legal drugs without a prescription to that list. Do a simple Google search of “no prescription codeine” and there’s a 50 percent chance the first web site that pops up will be one on which you can purchase the drugs without a doctor’s script. Type in “marijuana” and about 94 out of the first 100 sites listed on Google will offer seeds for sale.
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Panel dissects Patriot Act
As part of a broad, week-long awareness program on civil rights in America, the University of Pennsylvania chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union invited three scholars with different academic perspectives to discuss the USA Patriot Act for a crowd of interested students in Bodek Lounge on Oct. 27. The faculty panel included renowned constitutional law expert Rogers Smith, professor and chair of the Political Science Department, Rahul Kumar, professor of philosophy, and Jeremy McInerney, professor of classical studies.
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Scientists tease the brain to give up its secrets
The modern metaphor for the brain is a computer, but that hardly begins to capture how extraordinary the human brain is. Just take one example—what Martha Farah, professor of psychology and director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience calls “knowledge systems.” “I could ask you what you know about, for example fire regulations, to pick an obscure topic,” explained Farah, “and you would be able to tell me something. How is that knowledge represented in your brain? How is it so accessible? This is the holy grail of artificial intelligence, but we do it easily, all the time.”
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Scientists tease the brain to give up its secrets
The modern metaphor for the brain is a computer, but that hardly begins to capture how extraordinary the human brain is. Just take one example—what Martha Farah, professor of psychology and director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience calls “knowledge systems.” “I could ask you what you know about, for example fire regulations, to pick an obscure topic,” explained Farah, “and you would be able to tell me something. How is that knowledge represented in your brain? How is it so accessible? This is the holy grail of artificial intelligence, but we do it easily, all the time.”
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BOOKQUICK/New from the University Press
"The Education of Jane Addams" Victoria Bissell Brown 432 pages, 30 illustrations, $39.95 hardcover
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Server-based tools can spam, block viruses
As our professional lives become more and more dependent on electronic mail services, it becomes worthwhile to make sure the time spent sifting through messages is used wisely. Many relevant messages get lost in waves of unsolicited commercial e-mail, known as spam. Even addresses used exclusively for business or private correspondence are susceptible to persistent spammers.
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Baboons Identify Each Other by Status and Family; Such Abilities May Have Influenced Human Evolution
PHILADELPHIA -- We may take it for granted that humans can classify each other according to familial or social status, but how did those abilities evolve? In the Nov. 14 issue of the journal Science, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania report that, much like humans, baboons identify each other based on complex rules that determine relationships between families and status or "rank" within their particular family.
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The making of tomorrow’s voters
There were only 11 days left in Philadelphia’s contentious mayoral race. The entire Philadelphia media scrum had descended on a small classroom at Olney High School. Bright-eyed students in the Advanced Placement History class filled the desks. There were cameramen from all the network stations, there were radio reporters from WHYY and KYW. There was a reporter and a photographer from the Inquirer. Even The Daily Pennsylvanian was there.
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A trip into an ancient drug culture
In this job, people offer all sorts of temptations to encourage you to report on their event. Free food. Private tours. Interviews with famous people. Still, it was a bit of a surprise to have Pam Kosty, the University of Pennsylvania Museum’s normally upstanding public information officer, call me with an offer of peyote. I took her up on the offer, and it was truly a mind-altering experience.