Activation of a single type of neuron in the prefrontal cortex can spur a mouse to eat more — a finding that may pinpoint an elusive mechanism the human brain uses to regulate food intake.The decision to eat is fundamental to an animal’s survival and is...
Award-winning scholar Peter Dear will deliver the opening lecture in the spring 2014 series of Shulman Lectures in the Science and the Humanities.Titled “Darwin’s Sleepwalkers: Taxonomic Evidence in the Presentation of Darwin’s Species Theory,” Dear’s...
Author, critic, and columnist Michael Kimmelman has been appointed as the 2014 Franke Visiting Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center for the spring.Kimmelman will give a lecture titled “The Politics of Public Space” on Wednesday, April 2 at 5 p.m. in Rm...