Introduction: Sounding / Thinking

Sounding Solar and Stellar Interiors: General Introduction

in the many senses of the word. It is a tremendous amount of fun with a really large number of interesting problems, vigorous dialectic between observations and theory, rapid progress, fantastic observational opportunities, and extraordinarily stimulating colleagues. It is grand, in its phenomenally rapid development, the challenges that it presents, and the importance of the problems that it a...

Animal Thinking an Introduction

The topic of this Strüngmann Forum—animal thinking—was not formulated as a question—“Do animals think?—but rather as a statement. One might question whether we have already gone too far by making such a statement, but this obviously depends on what we mean by “thinking.” If one believes that thinking refers only to mental processes accessible through human conscious recollection, then thinking ...

Thinking Critically An introduction

Critical thinking is an essential skill for students, academics and those whose thinking forms an important aspect of their jobs. Critical thinking is a way of seeing things and a descriptive term for the set of methods used to consider problems. It leads to an informed, aware, systemic, considered and logical approach to deciding what to believe or do; with arguments and conclusions that are m...

Causality Hul256 Critical Thinking Introduction

Sonic Diaspora, Vibrations and Rhythm Thinking through the Sounding of the Jamaican Dancehall Session

The propagation of vibrations may provide a better way of understanding diasporic spread than the conventional focus on the circulation of products (Hall 1980, Appadurai 1986, 1996, Gilroy 1993a, Brah 1996). Jamaican sound systems operate as a broadcast medium and a source of CDs, DVDs and other commercial products (Henriques 2007a). But the dancehall sound system session also propagates a broa...