Being Human

Interdisciplines

Interdisciplines is a project aimed at enhancing interdisciplinary research and exchanges in the humanities. Each conference and seminar is run by a specific team and sponsored by a different grant. Projects are selected by a scientific committee and supervised by Gloria Origgi. The overall project has been sponsored by the C.N.R.S., France.

The Skeptic's Reading Room

The Reading Room is a comprehensive, free resource of articles relating to science and skepticism, as well as a community-building hub for skeptics everywhere.

The Library contains an ever-growing index of articles, reviews and opinion pieces culled from our extensive archives. These documents offer a indepth look into myriad subjects the Skeptics Society has explored over the years. You may browse through the articles in their subject listings, or do a keyword search for all articles on a particular subject.

In addition to the Library, The Reading Room seeks to promote the Skeptic Community by supporting the Skeptic Forum and providing useful links to Skeptic-related organizations.

We’re building this section as budget and time permits. You can help make the Reading Room a comprehensive and academically valuable resource by donating to the Skeptics Society website fund.

Human Nature Review

Human Nature Review is a significant source of analysis and commentary for readers at leading universities and research institutes in over one hundred and sixty countries and is one of the most popular sites on the whole world wide web.

Our goal is to bring into communication the variety of approaches to understanding human nature which have a regrettable tendency to be less in touch with one another than they might. We aim to act as host to original work and to seek to create an enabling space, a forum for constructive (including constructively critical) discussion and critiques of the terms of reference and assumptions of various approaches to the understanding of people as individuals, in groups, in institutions, in societies and as political and ideological beings.

Development of the Embryo and Fetus

This site outlines fetal and embryonic development with colour
photos, descriptions, and a QuickTime video.

The Visible Embryo

Cool site. The opening page consists of a spiral that represents the
23 stages occurring in the 1st trimester of pregnancy and every two
weeks of the 2nd and 3rd trimesters, as the site describes. You must
use the spiral to navigate through the weeks of pregnancy and preview
the changes in each stage of human development. Also includes games,
chat, chalk talk, and a glossary.

The Multi-Dimensional Human Embryo

This site consists of multi-dimensional images of an embryo using MRI
imaging. You view sample images by selecting a stage of development
from a picture list.

Adolescent Growth and Development

This is a power point style presentation which consists of material
such as Piaget's stages of cognitive development, as well as much
more information relevant to your text.

Child Development

This is a large site with many articles on child development divided
into a number of sections. The sections include: infant, toddler,
preschooler, school-age, intellectual, emotional/ social, ages and
stages, and brain development.

Understanding Growth and Development Patterns in Infants

This site covers a lot of ground, but touches on all the areas including physical, cognitive, social, and emotional of developemnt.

Chomsky for Philosophers

This is an archive of material that covers some of the core aspects of Chomsky's theory of innateness.

Baby Talk

This is a short article on language development.

Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development

This site contains info on Piaget and his stages of cognitive
development. It includes an easily read table summarizing the stages.

Lawrence Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development

This is an article designed to introduce you to Kohlberg and his
theory of moral development. It emphasizes the connection to Piaget's ideas, and includes a critical review of the theory.

Children and Depression

This is a short information page on depression and teen suicide.

Normal Adolescent Development

The normal feelings and behaviours of adolescents for each stage of
adolescent development are described in this site.

Surviving Adolescence

Information on the changes and common problems during adolescence.
Includes a few cartoons and suggested readings.

Intimate Relationships...from dating through divorce.

This site contains a lot of articles and info. Select topics that are
interesting and pertinent to the text.

Basic Facts about Menopause

This site is made up of FAQs about menopause.

Profile of Older Americans: 1998

This site consists of many statistics, graphs, and other information
relating to our aging population. Poverty, housing, health, education, employment and other issues are discussed.

Aging Into the 21st Century

This site contains lots of information on aging such as demographic
changes, projected health conditions among the elderly, and more. It
also contains a number of tables displaying projections and other
information.

National Aging Information Center

This site consists of links to major web resources on selected topics
and issues in aging.

How old is too old to be sexually active?

This is a short article with a bibliography discussing sexuality and
the elderly.

Understanding Alzheimer's

This site provides lots of information on Alzheimer's disease. There
is info on what it is, what causes it, how it is diagnosed, how it
progresses, and more.