Targeting Implicit Bias in Medicine: Lessons from Art and Archaeology

Raman Spectroscopy in Art and Archaeology

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Raman spectroscopy in art and archaeology.

The first chemical analyses of artworks and archaeological artefacts were accomplished historically and reported by Rene-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur [1–4] in France in a series of publications between 1716 and 1739 and by Sir Humphry Davy [5] in the UK in 1815, respectively: the former appeared in the Memoires Academie de Sciences, Paris, on pottery, glass and porcelains and the latter on wall...

The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology

Consciousness, art and the brain: Lessons from

In his novel Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust argues that conventional descriptions of the phenomenology of consciousness are incomplete because they focus too much on the highly-salient sensory information that dominates each moment of awareness and ignore the network of associations that lies in the background. In this paper, I explicate Proust s theory of conscious experience and sh...

Implicit bias.

e all have it. Implicit bias was the shorthand that allowed our distant ancestors to make split-second decisions (friend or foe?) based on incomplete information. It provided a razor-thin reaction-time advantage that could mean life or death. But today, we no longer need to assume that people who do not look or sound like us pose an immediate threat. Instead, successful organizations and people...