Science and Culture: Representing Feynman

Representing motion in a static image: constraints and parallels in art, science, and popular culture.

Representing motion in a picture is a challenge to artists, scientists, and all other imagemakers. Moreover, it presents a problem that will not go away with electronic and digital media, because often the pedagogical purpose of the representation of motion is more important than the motion itself. All satisfactory solutions evoke motion-for example, dynamic balance (or broken symmetry), strobo...

Representing motion in a static image : constraints and parallels in art , science , and popular culture

Representing Student Achievements in Science

In what follows, we develop a conceptual argument for expanding current visions of performance assessment to include the following three ideals: that performance/assessment addresses the value-laden decisions about what and whose science is learned and assessed and include multiple worldviews, that performance/assessment in science simultaneously emerges in response to local needs, and that the...

Culture and Cognitive Science

The purpose of this paper is to review the way in which cultural contributions to human nature have been treated within the fi eld of cognitive science. I was initially motivated to write about this topic when invited to give a talk to a Cognitive Science department at a sister university in California a few years ago. My goal, on that occasion, was to convince my audience, none of whom were pr...

Science and Culture.