Posts from March 15, 2010

Gumbo to go

The smell of gumbo and cornbread wafted through the fourth floor of the Bissell Building on Thursday, as three graduate students in U of T’s museum studies program offered up a hot lunch for $4. Alicia Cherayil, Erin Offord, and Zella Llerena have been stationed at Bissell every Thursday since last November to pay for […]

UTSU elections: win at all costs

The race to lead the University of Toronto Students’ Union is well underway and both campaigns have come out in full force. Whether at debates or while pounding the pavement outside Sid Smith, attacks are flying back and forth between candidates as the Change slate takes aim at the student union’s top jobs, and the […]

You know the drill

Nobelmen: The discovery of protein phosphorylation

The Prize: The 1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Edmond H. Fischer and Edwin G. Krebs for their discoveries of “reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism.” The Science: Most critical processes in the cell, including cell division, metabolism, and general housekeeping, are carried out by proteins. Proteins perform the daily […]

Mind the symposium

Last weekend, I attended the U of T Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Mind (UTISM), which is put on once every two years by the Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence Students’ Association. U of T’s cogsci department, located at UC, is itself a kind of ongoing interdisciplinary symposium on the mind, drawing its instructors from the […]

Cognitive advantage

Exploring the role of biological evolution has become increasingly popular in psychology and many related disciplines. It is emerging as a key to understanding cognitive development and has recently been applied to answer why human babies’ brains develop slower than those of most animals. This development period renders them helpless and dependent on others for […]

2010 MLB award predictions

Baseball is back. Spring Training has just started, and Opening Day is less than one month away. The following are my predictions for the MLB awards this upcoming season. Several selections might spark debate, but remember it’s a 162-game season so anything is possible. American League MVP: Evan Longoria—Tampa Bay Rays The 24-year-old third baseman […]