Science: Finding mismatches the bacterial way.

Finding your way: The cognitive science of navigation

One overarching research question in cognitive science concerns how information from perception and memory is processed and integrated in order to achieve robust, efficient, and adaptive behaviour in space, as is necessary in wayfinding. Examining this integration is quite complicated, entailing an understanding of learning strategies, spatial memory representations of static and dynamic relati...

Finding a Better Way.

Our patient was Mary (please note that the name has been changed to protect confidentiality). She was a mother to one daughter and 3 sons and a grandmother to 5 young children. She was a sister, a daughter, and a dear friend to many. She was a physical therapist whose patients adored her. We, her daughter and sister, were her caregivers. We experienced Mary’s slow demise firsthand, from October...

Finding our way home

Eleven years ago, my wife and I lost our son Callum to cancer. He had just celebrated his 3 birthday at Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto where he was undergoing his 3 “rescue” stem cell transplant for his 6 and final chemotherapy cycle, following the surgical removal of a brain tumor. The image above is a plaster imprint of Callum’s untouched foot, and was created on November 11, 2006 – just momen...

Finding the Best Function: A Way to Explain Calculus of Variations to Engineering and Science Students

In many practical problems, we need to find the most appropriate function: e.g., we need to find a control strategy u(t) that leads to the best performance of a system, we need to find the shape of the car which leads to the smallest energy losses, etc. Optimization over an unknown function can be described by the known Euler-Lagrange equations. The traditional way of deriving Euler-Lagrange eq...

Finding Our Way into the Hall of Mirrors: Combining Action Science and Reflective Practice