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...eyewitness reports of a soul parting company from the body but symptoms of oxygen starvation in the eyes and brain. In September, a team of Swiss neuroscientists reported that they could turn out-of-body experiences on and off by stimulating the part of the brain in which vision and bodily sensations converge...
...only decisions in sketchy circumstances that get rationalized but also the texture of our immediate experience. We all feel we are conscious of a rich and detailed world in front of our eyes. Yet outside the dead center of our gaze, vision is amazingly coarse. Just try holding your hand a few inches from your line of sight and counting your fingers. And if someone removed and reinserted an object every time you blinked (which experimenters can simulate by flashing two pictures in rapid sequence), you would be hard pressed to notice the change. Ordinarily, our eyes flit from place...
...undergraduate community. The “Plan for Harvard in Allston” addresses real and crucial concerns about the University’s expansion into Allston. The report endorses interdisciplinary teaching and research, especially in the sciences, a furtherance of former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ vision that is necessary if the University is to be a leader of science in the 21st century. The report also emphasizes the importance of an environmentally friendly physical plant. In Allston, campus sustainability will be a priority; all projects will be required to meet the Leadership in Energy and Environmental...
...that is changing. As 21st century science and technology open the brain to us as never before, accepted truths are becoming less true. The brain, we're finding, is indeed a bordered organ, subdivided into zones and functions. But the lines are blurrier than we ever imagined. Lose your vision, and the lobe that processed light may repurpose itself for other senses. Suffer a stroke in the area that controls your right arm, and another area may take over at least some...
Undergraduates will not be the secondary cares of Harvard’s administration and professors. The next president must consider student needs and consult their vision for their community. Students have been active in the community, improving Harvard’s reputation as a good neighbor. Similarly, the president must not weigh Harvard’s global prestige before its responsibility to its community, both in and outside its walls...