Prucia Buscell, Author at Plexus Institute

Pandemic May Foster Dramatic Healthcare Changes

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Prucia Buscell2020-06-02T11:03:19-04:00Catalyzing Conversations & Webinars, Healthcare|

Complex Challenges of Covid-19 or Coronavirus

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Prucia Buscell2020-04-26T13:53:28-04:00Complexity Matters Posts, Covid-19, Healthcare|

Are Multi-age Classrooms Better for Children?

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Prucia Buscell2020-02-22T08:07:30-05:00Catalyzing Conversations & Webinars, Catalyzing Stories Project, Complexity Matters Posts, Education|

Age in the Classroom: Keep it Uniform or Mix it UP?

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Prucia Buscell2020-02-20T16:34:40-05:00Catalyzing Stories Project, Complexity Matters Posts, Education|

Living in Complexity: Stories Today and Yesterday

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Prucia Buscell2019-11-29T17:34:22-05:00Adaptive Positive Deviance, Case Studies, Catalyzing Stories Project|

Athletes, Scholars, Gut Microbes Have Their Own Circadian Rhythms

Circadian Timing: Vital to Us and the Microbes Living in Us Circadian rhythms are the 24-hour cycles of physiological processes that take place in all living things, including fungi, cyanobacteria, plants, insects, animals and humans. These rhythms are important in the sleeping and eating patterns of all creatures, and in humans their influence ranges from moods, metabolism and obesity to health and illness, mental acuity and the performance of sports teams. Scientists at Harvard, Stanford, and the University of [...]

Prucia Buscell2017-11-17T01:20:19-05:00Complexity Matters Posts|

Teacher Plays Saxophone as His Brain Tumor is Removed

For Love of Science, Music,and Medicine When a young music teacher stayed awake and played the saxophone during surgery to remove his brain tumor, it was part of an extraordinary six-month collaboration. The teacher wanted to be reassured he wouldn't lose his musical ability. The medical team wanted to know more about how the brain processes music. Dan Fabbio was teaching music and finishing his Master's degree in music education in the spring of 2015 when dizziness, nausea and oddly [...]

Prucia Buscell2017-09-08T16:22:28-04:00Complexity Matters Posts|

Infections May be the Key When Genes and Cells Go Rogue

A gene believed to have protected human survival in ancient times may have become a rogue agent that nudges many contemporary humans toward Alzheimer’s disease. Fluorescent In-Situ Hybridization (FISH) identification of human chromosomes, Image by Steven M. Carr, after original by Genetix Dr. Ben Trumble is an anthropologist trained in evolutionary medicine who spent years learning about the lives of the Tsimane people, an indigenous forager-farming group in Bolivia. Interviewed in a New York Times story by Pagan [...]

Prucia Buscell2017-08-27T23:03:18-04:00Complexity Matters Posts|

An Open Mind and a Permeable Consciousness

Do you ever get a scrambled mash-up picture in your mind when different visual images appear simultaneously in your left and right fields of vision? If you do, it may just be the price you pay for being open minded. Luke Smillie, a senior lecturer in psychology and director of the Personality Processes Lab at the University of Melbourne in Australia has been studying open-mindedness and traits that seem to relate to it. One such trait is called binocular rivalry. [...]

Prucia Buscell2017-08-27T20:45:32-04:00Complexity Matters Posts|

The Music of the Spheres is Jazz

Astrophysicist Finds Planets in Orbital Resonance When the discovery of TRAPPIST-1, a system of seven earth sized planets orbiting around a sun 39 light years from our sun, was announced earlier this year, astronomers were excited by the possibility of life in these distant worlds. It appeared there might be lakes and oceans on the surfaces of three or more of these planets. Daniel Tamayo, an astrophysicist at the University of Toronto at Scarborough’s Center for Planetary Sciences and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, had a different focus. A Quanta magazine article by [...]

Prucia Buscell2017-08-17T18:56:07-04:00Complexity Matters Posts|

Do We Have Imagination Deficit Disorder?

Imagination and Creativity are Different Are we so enamored with technical innovations, with the incremental improvements to all our gadgets, devices and the latest trendy life styles fads that we forget the possibilities of grander visions? Brian Reich thinks so. In his new book, The Imagination Gap, Reich argues that the pace of change today is so rapid that it's easy to become focused on small novelties that we think will make our lives dramatically different. He calls it innovation [...]

Prucia Buscell2017-08-15T16:03:36-04:00Complexity Matters Posts|

We’re Smarter with People Whose World Views Differ

We're Also More Diligent and Thoughtful Researchers say we try harder, make better decisions and achieve more when we work in groups that have racial, ethnic and gender diversity. A Scientific American story by Katherine Phillips describes research showing that scientists, businesses, banks, juries and groups collaborating to solve problems do a better job when people from diverse viewpoints and life experiences come together. People who differ from each other bring differing information, perspectives and opinions to the task at [...]

Prucia Buscell2017-08-15T15:57:32-04:00Complexity Matters Posts|

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