BIOL 103 Syllabus
Background Resources for Brain Plague
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Art and controversy
Robert Mapplethorpe
1990
Sensation exhibit controversy 1999
Saint Mary in Elephant Dung

Cow Art

Brain as Machine
Teenager moves video icons just by imagination
The Mental Typewriter
Brain signals from paralyzed patients
The Mind Reading Robot
Brain scan sees hidden thoughts

Art and Volcanos
Painting of Volcanos
Volcanos On Line

The Pleiades

Seven Sisters -- computer art

4-D Art

Brain Science
Brain linings
Brain with arachnoid
Arachnoid
Neurotransmitter Pathways
Neuroglia

Color
http://www.yorku.ca/eye/ciediag1.htm

Spectrum of Photoreceptors

Proteins for Color Reception

Color demos -- All color is relative.

Color

Nanoscience and Biology
Amino acids and protein synthesis
Rotary motors
Eyeglass Computer
Intelligent Clothing

Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright -- Guggenheim

Frank Lloyd Wright -- Fallingwater

Frank Gehry

Gehry's model for the Corcoran  (That's a building?)

Pleasure
Hedweb: The Hedonistic Imperative
The biological basis of pleasure
The Reward Pathway
Dopamine

Psychoactive Molecules
Oxycontin
Ecstasy, information
Ecstasy, medical effects
When is it best to take crack cocaine?
Other transmitters involved (nothing is simple)
Chocolate

Communist Party
Communist Party USA
CP history

Chess
Week in Chess

The New World Chess Champion