This Is Your Brain on Metaphors. The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. Despite rumors to the contrary, there are many ways in which the human brain isn’t all that fancy. Let’s compare it to the nervous system of a fruit fly. Both are made up of cells, of course, with neurons playing particularly important roles. Now one might expect that a neuron from a human will differ dramatically from one from a fly.
Maybe the human’s will have especially ornate ways of communicating with other neurons, making use of unique “neurotransmitter” messengers. Maybe compared to the lowly fly neuron, human neurons are bigger, more complex, in some way can run faster and jump higher. We study hard to get admitted to a top college to get a good job to get into the nursing home of our choice. But no. Erin Schell Neuroscientists understand the structural bases of some of these qualities. Consider the following from J. Anxiety is secretive. Or: What is Gendler going on about? Poetry Archive. T. S. Eliot. The Association of Writers & Writing Programs -- Serving Writers. The Poetry Foundation : Find Poems and Poets. Discover Poetry. Hampton Roads Writers. Hampton Roads Writers -- Eric Webb. Eric M. R. Webb spent four years in the United States Marine Corps, and about half of his poetry addresses that time spent on active duty, while the other half addresses a wide variety of subjects, from the love of live jazz to the frazzled leaf that rolled by him on a sidewalk one fall.
Eric is currently a full-time student at Virginia Wesleyan College, where he is pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in English with an expected graduation of May, 2010. After which he will take the next step in the lifelong pursuit of poverty by seeking a Master’s of Fine Arts. He currently maintains a blog covering his writing and current attempts to break into the rarified world of published poets and continued poverty. Eric is Co-Editor of The Outlet, VWC’s student literary magazine, for 2008-09 and 2009-10, and is striving to create a continuing legacy of excellence for the publication at the school. The Poetry Society of Virginia Home Page. Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More.