Last year, film director Sarah Polley released her first feature length documentary, The Stories We Tell. The subject: her own family. Specially, her mother, who died when she was eleven years old. The film’s byline reads: “A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family…

Last summer, the Los Angeles Times published a territorial squabble among academics that highlighted a perennial question: should psychology, or any other social science for that matter, be included among the “true” sciences like chemistry, biology, and physics? The kerfuffle began when Timothy Wilson, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, published an op-ed piece titled,…

Below, you will see graphs that represent the compiled results from the “Cup Drop Experiment” that several classes conducted on Wednesday. How did the overall results compare with your class’s data? Do you need to revise any explanations? Dr. Rusty Towell, our Spotlight speaker from Monday, looked over our results and offered the following response:…