Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A classical secondary school with a curriculum largely centered around Greek and Latin; its primary purpose being preparation for college.  

A major horizontal fissure on each side of the cerebral hemisphere, separating the frontal and parietal lobes from the temporal lobe.  

An organizational structure allowing for communication to flow horizontally to another part on the organizational chart.  

Secondary tissue, such as cambium and cork cambium.  

The rounded projection on the lateral side of the ankle joint, medial malleolus. The part of the end of the fibula which protrudes on the outside of the ankle. Process on outer edge of fibula at lower end.  

An asymmetry of function of the two cerebral hemispheres. In most people who are right handed, the left hemisphere is specialized for language, while the right hemisphere is better at visual and special tasks.  

A sense of “sideness,” including the tendency to use one hand for specific tasks. An awareness of the two sides of one’s body and which is left and which is right. Some children with right-left disorientation have a poor sense of laterality and often confuse left and right; these are often children who lack dominance…

The tendency of adjacent neural elements of the visual system to inhibit each other; it underlies brightness contrast and accentuation of contours.  

A region of the hypothalamus that is said to be a hunger center and to be in an antagonistic relation to a supposed satiety center.  

The spectrum of colors seen as a result of the spherical surface of the lens.