Jim Heller ‘28 In Why Materialism Is Baloney, the author, Bernardo Kastrup, dismantles the common assumption that materialism – the belief that the universe is all physical stuff…
Aditi Singh ’28 In 2020, author Robert Kolker published Hidden Valley Road, detailing the tragic story of the Galvin family, in which six out of twelve children were…
Yiran Jiang ‘26 Since the early 1980s, the idea of modularity has become important in understanding how the mind works (Robbins). Fodor’s concept of modularity suggests that certain…
Nandhini Parthasarathy ‘ 26 It starts as a mild discomfort—nothing alarming, just lingering nausea that persists through the day. Rachel, a 52-year-old mother of two, decides to visit…
Aditi Singh ’28 The microbiota-gut-brain axis (GBA) is the complex relationship between the brain and gut, and as more findings emerge, it appears that it could play a…