re: [tips] URGENT! URGENT (TIPSTER OF THE WEEK)

[Mike Palij]

On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:16:46 -0800, Michael Sylvester wrote:
>Please help me identify Tipster OF THE WEEK.He is a white dude and is 
>endomorphically challenged.He has publications in many languages and is 
>recognized throughout the universe.He is a mobile
>nomadic professor but his base is at a university somewhere in the North 
>pole.He has a penchant for delivering publications exactly at 
>12 AM   every Decenber 25th by Federal Chimney Expres.Canadian tipsters 
>Black,McKelvie,Clark,Green have reported picking up his podcasts in 
>English,French,and Scottish-ending then with Ho,Heaux,and Rhyming in the 
>glomind.He  travels with  ruminants with horns. Canadian mounties and Imterpol 
>are  on his track and so is PETA.He is chosen as our Tipster of the week for 
>exhibiting this rare quality among academics- jolliness.
>But I need to find his real identity and name.

Hannibal Lechter?

-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu


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re:[tips] Holiday stories

[Mike Palij]

On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:47:23 +, John Kulig wrote:
> We've covered Tipster's favorite christmas songs, here is my 
>recommendation for books: Barbara Robinson's The Best Christmas 
>Pageant Ever (1972). It was recommended by a friend and I 
>just finished reading it to my kids. It's a GREAT kid's book, 
>about an obnoxious, unruly family of kids who manage to get 
>parts in (what was supposed to be) a prim and proper christmas 
>pageant

Well, since the Subject line says "Holiday Stories", let me suggest
O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi", a story that psychologists can
use when discussing interpersonal relationships.  Copies of the
story are available online and one website that has the story as
well as an mp3 reading of the story is this:
http://www.transpacificradio.com/2006/12/21/xmas3-deorio/

For background to the story, see its Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gift_of_the_Magi

It should be noted that Wikipedia also has a listing of "Christmas
Fiction"; see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Christmas_fiction

And let's not forget the old Christmas favorites such as Clement
Moore's "The Night Before Christmas" which helped to establish
our current conception of Santa Claus (though the jolly old man
in a red suit was made more popular through his portrayal
in Coca-Cola ads in the 20th century;see
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/6870862/The-saintly-spirit-of-Father-Christmas.html):
 

For the text of the poem and some background; see:
http://www.carols.org.uk/twas_the_night_before_christmas.htm

Let us not forget Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", a free
version of which is available on books.google.com; see:
http://books.google.com/books?id=P9s0MAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22a+christmas+carol%22&cd=12#v=onepage&q=&f=false
or
http://tinyurl.com/y922vja 

Books.google.com has about 87 books with the title "Christmas Stories"
some of which make the full contents available while other provide limited
views or no preview; see:
http://books.google.com/books?ei=uRgyS7jACozTlAfiqt2VBw&ct=result&q=%22christmas+stories%22&btnG=Search+Books

Perhaps I may be permitted to change the direction of this discussion
by identifying what are my favorite Christmas movies or Christmas 
associated movies (i.e., because these movies though not explicitly
about Christmas were presented around Christmas time).  My top
five favorite Christmas movies are, in reverse ranking, are:

(5) March of the Wooden Soldier (Laurel & Hardy)

(4) The Wizard of Oz (if you have ask...)

(3) It's A Wonderful Life (prototypical Frank Capra corn)

(4) A Christmas Carol aka Scrooge (with Alistair Sim; for some 
reason that I could never understand in the past the NY Times in 
its TV listings would say that this film lays on the "Freudian sauce" heavily)

And my favorite Christmas movie is:

(Drum roll!)

(Wait for it!)

(1) Die Hard (with Bruce Willis; a wonderful film about loss and
gain, redemption, hope, the human spirit overcoming overwhelming 
odds, and lots of guns and explosions! ;-)

I find that most people look at me oddly when I say that "Die Hard"
is my favorite Christmas movie.  Perhaps they forget that it takes
place on Christmas Eve and its underlying theme of miraculous 
occurrences.  Plus the boyish fun of blowing stuff up! :-)

Honorable mentions:
A Christmas Story (1983; "You'll shoot your eye out!")
Three Godfathers (1948; John Ford directior; Starring John Wayne)
Tokyo Godfathers (2003; see www.imdb.com for info)
Since You Went Away (1944; starring Claudette Colbert)
Meet John Doe (1941; more Capra corn)

For a more comprehensive list of Christmas movies and Christmas
related movies, see the list on Wikipedia: see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christmas_films

And a "Bah Humbug!", er, I mean "Happy Holidays" to all.

-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu

P.S. I have to admit that I found the Saturday Night Live (SNL)
Christmas special pretty funny, especially the sketchs with
Alec Baldwin reprising his "Glengarry Glen Ross" speech to
underperforming Santa's helpers and his "Schweddy Balls" bit;
see:
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/nprs-delicious-dish-schweddy-balls/2846/





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[tips] Three psychologists walk into a bar...

[taylor]

OK, I've been pondering this one ever since Mike brought it up and this is the 
best I can do, there is no more creativity in me than this:

Three psychologists walk into a bar

“Ouch!” responds Skinner.
“Ow, how does that feel?” asks Rogers.
“Hmmm...” muses Freud, “I have just recalled a long-forgotten childhood 
memory...I think, yes, it must be...sometimes a long hard shaft is just a bar.”


Annette

ps: My 21-year old son and his wife are leaving for New York city tonight 
(taking the cheap red eye) and coming home New Year's Day. Other than going to 
ground zero, skating at Rockefeller Center and watching the ball drop on New 
Year's Eve, any "must do" or "must see" suggestions? I recall seeing the 
Rockettes on my only real trip to NYC, other than quick drive-throughs with a 
quick stop to say I'd been there--but that was in 196? and I was 17, so maybe 
it's not a must see for a couple both 21.)


Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
University of San Diego
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110
619-260-4006
tay...@sandiego.edu

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Re: [tips] Who put the "Little" in "Little Albert"?

[taylor]

Stephen, maybe the "emeritus" status suggests you have more time on your hands 
than those of us wasting away, grading essays all day and all night.(ok, 
and thinking up punch lines for 3 psychologists walk into a barbut that's a 
triviality that lightens up the essay reading.)

;-)

Annette


Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
University of San Diego
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110
619-260-4006
tay...@sandiego.edu


 Original message 
>Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:14:08 -0500
>From: sbl...@ubishops.ca  
>Subject: Re: [tips] Who put the "Little" in "Little Albert"?  
>To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" 
>
>I continue my lonely toil in seach of an answer,  in dank and 
>dreary dungeons, amid flickering candles and moldy tomes. And 
>not a cask of Amontillado to spur me on.
>
>On my last attempt I nominated Daniel (1944) as the earliest 
>adopter of the term "Little Albert" to describe Watson's stolid 
>subject. I now push the boundary another 15 years back.
>
>The new candidate is:
>
>Clarke, Edwin Leavitt (1929). The art of straight thinking: a 
>primer of scientific method for social inquiry.
>
>On p, 16, Clarke says this:
>
>"In this case of little Albert we have two important phenomena 
>illustrated. First is the conditioning of a stimulus by an unlearred 
>stimulus-response". 
>
>This is 9 years after the original publication by Watson and 
>Rayner in which we were first introduced to Albert (but not to 
>little Albert).  I was not able to discover anything about the 
>author, Edwin Clarke. However, the work is undoubtedly not 
>"juvenile fiction" as Google Books seems to think.
>
>A slightly later source is this:
>
>Shirley, Mary Margaret (1933). The first two years: a study of 
>twenty-five babies, vol. 3, p. 209.
>
>She says: 
>
>"Whereas Jones saw the babies only once or twice and the 
>Ohio State group observed the baby during only the neonatal 
>period, Watson apparently kept an experimental eye on "little 
>Albert" for more than a year. " [full text at 
>http://tinyurl.com/yhunr7y ]
>
>Shirley sounded to me as someone familiar, unless I was 
>confusing her with that kid from Prince Edward Island. Sure 
>enough, the Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science lists 
>her as an American psychologist, born 1899, Ph.D. University of 
>Minnesota 1927,  death date unknown. [see 
>http://tinyurl.com/yglwoqz ].
>
>I believe "The first two years" is her major work, and her 
>adoption of the descriptor "little Albert" may have been 
>influential. However,  I still think that Eysenck's frequent use of 
>the same term starting in 1959 may have been the impetus for  
>its modern use. Difficult to prove, however.
>
>Stephen
>
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>Professor of Psychology, Emeritus   
>Bishop's University   
> e-mail:  sbl...@ubishops.ca
>2600 College St.
>Sherbrooke QC  J1M 1Z7
>Canada
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[tips] Holiday story

[David Hogberg]

from today's *The writer's almanac* by Garrison Keillor:   (Originally, I'd
intended to send only the Updike piece, but the others included might
interest you, too.)  DKH

 At the University College of North Wales at Bangor

by Gerald 
Locklin

Most of my students here are very poor.

I seldom see them in the pubs: they
Cannot really afford the prices.

As winter hits they have to decide whether
To spend their shillings on the coin-operated heaters
Or on food.

I suspect that heat often wins—you can
Freeze to death quicker than you will starve.

Their incentive is that they will presumably
Have more comfortable lives if they survive
The minimalist conditions of college.

The government gives them a small grant
>From which to buy books.
We are encouraged to require
Very few books.

A book is a valued art object here.

I never hear a complaint here
And no one misses a tutorial
Without the most profuse and formal
Of apologies.

In California my students and I and everyone else,
Also including the movie stars and politicians and
Pro-athletes,

Seldom stop for breath
In the midst of a constant bitching.

"At the University College of North Wales at Bangor" by Gerald Locklin, from
*New and Selected Poems*. © World Parade Books, 2008. Reprinted with
permission. (buy
now)


It's the birthday of the poet *Robert
Bly
*, (books by this
author)
born in Madison, Minnesota (1926). He said, "One day while studying a
[William Butler] Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I
recognized that a single short poem has room for history, music, psychology,
religious thought, mood, occult speculation, character, and events of one's
own life."

It's the birthday of author *Norman
Maclean
*, (books by this
author)
born in Clarinda, Iowa (1902), but he grew up in Missoula, Montana. He
taught English at the University of Chicago, and after his retirement from
teaching, at the age of 70, he focused on writing. He published two
autobiographical essays, and then he wrote his famous autobiographical
novella, *A River Runs Through It*.

It begins: "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly
fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana,
and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his
own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being
fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all
first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that
John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman."

It's Christmas week, *and we're celebrating with Christmas stories. John
Updike(books
by this 
author)
wrote a story called "The Carol Sing,"* about residents of the Tarbox,
Massachusetts, a fictional town that Updike created that resembled the real
one he lived in from 1957 to 1974. The residents meet at the Tarbox town
hall to rehearse Christmas carols for the annual concert.

This year, the Tarbox carolers are rehearsing "The First Noël" and "Adeste,
fideles, / Laeti triumphantes; / Venite, venite / In Bethlehem" and also
"This time of the year is spent in good cheer, / And neighbors together do
meet, / To sit by the fire, with friendly desire, / Each other in love to
greet."

They're missing the only man able to sing the low notes, the man whom the
story begins by describing: "Surely one of the natural wonders of Tarbox was
Mr. Burley at the Town Hall carol sing. How he could jubilate, how he would
God-rest those merry gentlemen, how he would boom out when the male voices
became Good King Wenceslas. ... He had what you'd have to call a God-given
bass." He'd committed suicide just after Thanksgiving.

The Tarbox old-timers who comprise the chorus go on rehearsing, arthritic,
hitting wrong notes, each wondering why Mr. Burley swallowed cyanide,
feeling his absence, but no one speaking of him. The narrator muses: "Why?
Health, money, hobbies, that voice. Not having that voice makes a big hole
here. Without his lead, no man dares take the lower parts; we just wheeze
away at the melody with the women. ... We peek around guiltily, missing
Burley's voice."

And concludes, "Well, why anything? Why do *we*? Come every year sure as the
solstice to carol these antiquities that if you listened to the words would
break your heart. Silence, darkness, Jesus, angels. Better, I suppose, to
sing than to listen."

John Updike's "The Carol Sing" can be found in *The

Re: [tips] Three psychologists walk into a bar...

[Beth Benoit]

Depending on their interests...my favorite place in New York is the American
Museum of Natural History.  It's right on the edge of Central Park and 79th
Street.  I just checked their website and they again have the live
butterflies in a conservatory, that were there when I was there last.  Just
enchanting.  They'll land right on your head and arms, and the staff check
you when you're ready to leave to make sure some don't accidentally leave
when you do!  http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/butterflies/?src=e_h

Then, if they like Indian food, they can walk around the corner (well, a few
blocks and then around the corner) and go into what looks like a
surprisingly cheesy condominium, right on Central Park South (#30), take the
elevator to the top (15th) floor, and walk into the most amazing little
Indian restaurant with Indian decor.  But the best is that it has a
breathtaking view of Central Park.  Not to be missed!!  Eating tikka masala
while looking over Central Park, and at The Dakotas (site of John Lennon's
murder) is our favorite New York experience.

Hope they have a great time.

Beth Benoit

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Re: [tips] Three psychologists walk into a bar...

[Beth Benoit]

Oops...the NYC Indian restaurant is called "Nirvana."  Sorry!  I got carried
away with gastronomic and visual reveries.
Beth

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Beth Benoit  wrote:

>   Depending on their interests...my favorite place in New York is the
> American Museum of Natural History.  It's right on the edge of Central Park
> and 79th Street.  I just checked their website and they again have the live
> butterflies in a conservatory, that were there when I was there last.  Just
> enchanting.  They'll land right on your head and arms, and the staff check
> you when you're ready to leave to make sure some don't accidentally leave
> when you do!  http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/butterflies/?src=e_h
>
> Then, if they like Indian food, they can walk around the corner (well, a
> few blocks and then around the corner) and go into what looks like a
> surprisingly cheesy condominium, right on Central Park South (#30), take the
> elevator to the top (15th) floor, and walk into the most amazing little
> Indian restaurant with Indian decor.  But the best is that it has a
> breathtaking view of Central Park.  Not to be missed!!  Eating tikka masala
> while looking over Central Park, and at The Dakotas (site of John Lennon's
> murder) is our favorite New York experience.
>
> Hope they have a great time.
>
> Beth Benoit
>
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[tips] Top 3 terrible statements

[michael sylvester]

 Judith Harris

Vaccination causes autism

Oprah is scary

Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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Re: [tips] Three psychologists walk into a bar...

[Ken Steele]

I am sure that Mike P will be able to provide a long list but 
here is a plug for the Museum of Modern Art.


Along with "must see" and "must do" I try to get a list of "must 
eat."  NYC will be a great place for 'eats.'


Ken


tay...@sandiego.edu wrote:


ps: My 21-year old son and his wife are leaving for New York
city tonight (taking the cheap red eye) and coming home New
Year's Day. Other than going to ground zero, skating at
Rockefeller Center and watching the ball drop on New Year's
Eve, any "must do" or "must see" suggestions? I recall seeing
the Rockettes on my only real trip to NYC, other than quick
drive-throughs with a quick stop to say I'd been there--but
that was in 196? and I was 17, so maybe it's not a must see
for a couple both 21.)


Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology 
University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 
619-260-4006 tay...@sandiego.edu




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Appalachian State University
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Re: [tips] Who put the "Little" in "Little Albert"?

[Christopher D. Green]

>> I continue my lonely toil in seach of an answer,  in dank and 
>> dreary dungeons, amid flickering candles and moldy tomes. And 
>> not a cask of Amontillado to spur me on.
>>
>> 

Oh come on, Stephen. I've lived in Lennoxville (you may recall). It's 
not THAT bad, even in December. :-)

Chris
-- 

Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Canada

 

416-736-2100 ex. 66164
chri...@yorku.ca
http://www.yorku.ca/christo/

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[tips] Today's Doonesbury Fwd: Detroit Free Press e-Edition Article

[David Hogberg]

It's probable that you already have seen this, but ...

-- Forwarded message --
From: No Reply 
Date: Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Subject: Detroit Free Press e-Edition Article
To: dhogb...@albion.edu



dhogb...@albion.edu sent you this article.
fwd
Detroit Free Press 12/23/2009, Page A18






-- 
David K. Hogberg, PhD
Professor of Psychology, Emeritus
Department of Psychology
Albion College
Albion MI 49224

Tel: 517/629-4834, Mobile: 517/262-1277

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[tips] one of the best deals in NYC

[roig-reardon]

Have them take the no. 1 train to the Staten Island Ferry (it's a short walk 
from ground zero) and take the ferry to Staten Island and then immediately back 
to Manhattan. It's a 20-25 minute ride each way and you get a nice view of 
downtown Manhattan, Jersey City, Brooklyn, the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, 
etc. The best part of this is that the ferry is free! 



Miguel 
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Re: [tips] Holiday story

[Allen Esterson]

���David Hogberg quotes from a poem by Gerald Locklin of University 
College of North Wales at Bangor:

>Most of my students here are very poor.

>As winter hits they have to decide whether
>To spend their shillings on the coin-operated heaters
>Or on food.

>I suspect that heat often wins—you can
>Freeze to death quicker than you will starve.

>Their incentive is that they will presumably
>Have more comfortable lives if they survive
>The minimalist conditions of college.

>The government gives them a small grant
>From which to buy books.
>We are encouraged to require
>Very few books.

This is really weird. The government doesn't give students "grants", 
and hasn't done so for more than ten years. In order to afford their  
longterm aim of 50 percent of children attending university, the 1997 
Labour Government brought in a system of student loans for England and 
Wales in place of the previous grant system: http://tinyurl.com/ye8p7d6

This is far from satisfactory, but the rate of interest is generous, 
and after graduation they don't have to start paying back until their 
income reaches a certain minimum.

>I seldom see them in the pubs: they
>Cannot really afford the prices.

That must be because students nowadays don't go to pubs as they did in 
the past, they go "clubbing"! And if they're having difficulties in 
buying booze in North Wales they are untypical of students in the UK, 
possibly because they haven't taken out a large enough loan. ;-)

Allen Esterson
Former lecturer, Science Department
Southwark College, London
http://www.esterson.org
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[tips] Holiday story

David Hogberg
Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:51:27 -0800
 from today's *The writer's almanac* by Garrison Keillor:   (Originally, 
I'd
intended to send only the Updike piece, but the others included might
interest you, too.)  DKH

 At the University College of North Wales at Bangor

by Gerald
Locklin

Most of my students here are very poor.

I seldom see them in the pubs: they
Cannot really afford the prices.

As winter hits they have to decide whether
To spend their shillings on the coin-operated heaters
Or on food.

I suspect that heat often wins—you can
Freeze to death quicker than you will starve.

Their incentive is that they will presumably
Have more comfortable lives if they survive
The minimalist conditions of college.

The government gives them a small grant
>From which to buy books.
We are encouraged to require
Very few books.

A book is a valued art object here.

I never hear a complaint here
And no one misses a tutorial
Without the most profuse and formal
Of apologies.

In California my students and I and everyone else,
Also including the movie stars and politicians and
Pro-athletes,

Seldom stop for breath
In the midst of a constant bitching.

"At the University College of North Wales at Bangor" by Gerald Locklin, 
from
*New and Selected Poems*. © World Parade Books, 2008. Reprinted with
permission. (buy
now)


It's the birthday of the poet *Robert
Bly
*, (books by this
author)
born in Madison, Minnesota (1926). He said, "One day while studying a
[William Butler] Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my 
life. I
recognized that a single short poem has room for history, music, 
psychology,
religious thought, mood, occult speculation, character, and events of 
one's
own life."

It's the birthday of author *Norman
Maclean
*, (books by this
author)
born in Clarinda, Iowa (1902), but he grew up in Missoula, Montana. He
taught English at the University of Chicago, and after his retirement 
from
teaching, at the age of 70, he focused on writing. He published two
autobiographical essays, and then he wrote his famous autobiographical
novella, *A River Runs Through It*.

It begins: "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and 
fly
fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western 
Montana,
and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied 
his
own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being
fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all
first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that
John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman."

It's Christmas week, *and we're celebrating with Christmas stories. John
Updike(books
by this
author)
wrote a story called "The Carol Sing,"* about residents of 

Re: [tips] URGENT! URGENT (TIPSTER OF THE WEEK)

[sblack]

On 23 Dec 2009 at 1:16, michael sylvester wrote:
 
> 
> Please help me identify Tipster OF THE WEEK.He is a 
> white dude and is endomorphically challenged.

I believe his postal code up here in Canada is H0H 0H0

No, it really is. Really, really.

Stephen
-
Stephen L. Black, Ph.D.  
Professor of Psychology, Emeritus   
Bishop's University   
 e-mail:  sbl...@ubishops.ca
2600 College St.
Sherbrooke QC  J1M 1Z7
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Re: [tips] Three psychologists walk into a bar...

[Paul Brandon]

And the planetarium attached to it!
And of course the Metropolitan Museum across the Park.
(I grew up in these places).

On Dec 23, 2009, at 8:52 AM, Beth Benoit wrote:

> Depending on their interests...my favorite place in New York is the  
> American Museum of Natural History.  It's right on the edge of  
> Central Park and 79th Street.  I just checked their website and  
> they again have the live butterflies in a conservatory, that were  
> there when I was there last.  Just enchanting.  They'll land right  
> on your head and arms, and the staff check you when you're ready to  
> leave to make sure some don't accidentally leave when you do!   
> http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/butterflies/?src=e_h
>
> Then, if they like Indian food, they can walk around the corner  
> (well, a few blocks and then around the corner) and go into what  
> looks like a surprisingly cheesy condominium, right on Central Park  
> South (#30), take the elevator to the top (15th) floor, and walk  
> into the most amazing little Indian restaurant with Indian decor.   
> But the best is that it has a breathtaking view of Central Park.   
> Not to be missed!!  Eating tikka masala while looking over Central  
> Park, and at The Dakotas (site of John Lennon's murder) is our  
> favorite New York experience.
>
> Hope they have a great time.

Paul Brandon
Emeritus Professor of Psychology
Minnesota State University, Mankato
paul.bran...@mnsu.edu


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Re: [tips] Holiday story

[sblack]

David Hogberg quotes from a poem by Gerald Locklin of University  College of 
North Wales at Bangor:

> >The government gives them a small grant
> >From which to buy books.
> >We are encouraged to require
> >Very few books.

Allen commented:
 
> This is really weird. The government doesn't give students "grants", 
> and hasn't done so for more than ten years.

That was read on National Public Radio yesterday, as David 
noted. The source is given as a 2008 book. But He-Who-Has-
Too-Much-Time-On-His-Hands has discovered (or thinks he 
has, as it's not directly verified) that the original publication of 
that poem was in a 1991 book called "Yank at Bangor: Poems 
>From the Welsh Teaching Experience" which was published in 
1991. Possibly the poem was written even earlier. That would 
place it beyond Allen's ten-year limit.

As for Christmas stories, I nominate Frederick Forsyth's  1976 
aviation story "The Shepherd" as read by Alan Maitland on the 
CBC radio programme "As It Happens" each year at Christmas. 
Still gives me chills.  I tried but failed to find an on-line version of 
it. Oh, I think I see why. They're selling it for $17.95. Bah, 
humbug. Wikipedia has a spoiler, but let's not go there. Literally. 

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Re: [tips] Who put the "Little" in "Little Albert"?

[sblack]

I said:

> I continue my lonely toil in seach of an answer,  in dank and 
> dreary dungeons, amid flickering candles and moldy tomes. And 
> not a cask of Amontillado to spur me on.
> 

And Chris Green responded:
> 
> Oh come on, Stephen. I've lived in Lennoxville (you may recall). It's not 
> THAT bad, even in 
> December. :-)

Who said anything about Lennoxville which, as always, is deep 
and crisp and even, and lovely in the snow and rolling hills?

Everyone knows that the research libraries are in Toronto.

Stephen

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[tips] Another mystery for Stephen Black

[Ken Steele]

The name of the school is Bishop's University

but the email address is ubishops.ca.  Why isn't the address 
bishopsu.ca?



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re: [tips] Three psychologists walk into a bar...

[Mike Palij]

On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:33:37 -0800, Annette taylor wrote:
>OK, I've been pondering this one ever since Mike brought it up 
>and this is the best I can do, there is no more creativity in me than this:
>
>Three psychologists walk into a bar
>
>“Ouch!” responds Skinner.
>“Ow, how does that feel?” asks Rogers.
>“Hmmm...” muses Freud, “I have just recalled a long-forgotten childhood 
>memory...I think, yes, it must be...sometimes a long hard shaft is just a bar.”

I am going to burn in hell for the following joke:

Stanley Miglram, Phil Zimbardo, and Leo Dicaro walk into a bar
and each orders a drink.  Phil looks around and see that there is
no jukebox.
Phil:  Boy, I'd like to listen to some music right now.
Stanley:  Maybe we can all sing something together.  Do you
guys know the words to "I'm On a Highway to Hell"?
Phil: No, I don't believe that I do.
Leo:  I don't either but if you can hum a few bars, I can fake it.

*rimshot*

>Annette
>
>ps: My 21-year old son and his wife are leaving for New York city tonight 
>(taking the cheap red eye) and coming home New Year's Day. Other than going to 
>ground zero, skating at Rockefeller Center and watching the ball drop on New 
>Year's Eve, any "must do" or "must see" suggestions? I recall seeing the 
>Rockettes on my only real trip to NYC, other than quick drive-throughs with a 
>quick stop to say I'd been there--but that was in 196? and I was 17, so maybe 
>it's not a must see for a couple both 21.)

The weather this week is very cold, typically below 32 degree F and wind
chill makes the temps go into the 20s.  I don't know what the forecasts are
for next week.  But if your son and his wife and up to it, here are a few things
they might consider:

(1)  If they are going to go ice skating at Rockefeller Center (RC), they can 
get
more info about other activities there from the RC website; see:
http://www.rockefellercenter.com/
A couple of Notes:
(a) the today show typically has a crowd of people around on the RC plaza
and the show tries to involve them in some activities.  This is in the morning.
(b) at Rockefeller Center there is the "Top of the Rock" Observation Deck
which gives one a bird's eye view of midtown (on a clear day one can see
for forever); see:
http://www.topoftherocknyc.com/welcome/default.aspx
(Note: going to the top of the Empire State Building, about 20 blocks
south on 34th Street is another option; see:
http://www.esbnyc.com/tourism/index.cfm?CFID=36422739&CFTOKEN=47637258 )
(c) Rockefeller Center occupies the blocks from 48th Street to 51st Street
and goes from 5th Avenue to 6th Ave (Ave of the Americas).  There are
a number of ritzy stores in the neighborhood along 5th avenue which they
might like to window shop.  Between 50th and 51th streets on 5th Ave
is St. Patrick's Cathedral which they might want to visit; see:
http://www.saintpatrickscathedral.org/homepage/home.html
(d)Walking up (i.e., North) 5th Avenue will bring them to the Trump Tower 
at 56th St (which has a public arcade where one can watch how the top 1% live; 
see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Tower_%28New_York%29 )
and Tiffany's up the block on 57th Street.  At the intersection of 57th St
and 5th Ave they'll see the Christmas Star.
(e)  Continuing up 5th Ave, at 59th St and 5th Ave, one will find the
Grand Army Plaza (Manhattan version) on the west side of the street
and the Plaza Hotel behind it.  Central Park starts at 59th street (aka
Central Park South) and continues up to 110th Street between 5th
and 8th Avenues.  About 25 block north on 5th Avenue, on the west
side of the street (butting into the park), one will find the Metropolitan
Museum of Art (suggested admission is $20 but they have a pay what
you wish policy); see: http://www.metmuseum.org/
Further north on 5th is the Guggenheim museum and other museums
which constitute "Museum Mile"; see:
http://www.ny.com/museums/mile.html
The Whitney Museum of American Art is nearby on Madison Ave
and 74th Street; see:
http://whitney.org/
(f) At 59th St & 5th Ave, if one walked west along Central Part South,
one would eventually reach the Time Warner Center at 59th St &
8th Ave (Central Park West);  see:
http://www.shopsatcolumbuscircle.com/info/TWC.cfm
(Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus and Law School are
located behind this building; the Board is due north).
If one continues north on Central Park West to 81st Street one will find
the American Museum of Natural History and the Rose Center; see:
http://www.amnh.org/
(g) 59th Street and 8th Avenue intesect with Broadway and this intersection
is called Columbus Circle.  Broadway goes north-west as a diagonal
in violation of the street grid.  If one walks up (north) Broadway, one
will come across Lincoln Center at about 64th Street; see:
http://new.lincolncenter.org/live/
One is now on the Upper West Side where one can get really lost.
Points to anyone who can identify where the final scene from Woody
Allen's "Annie Hall" take place (where the voiceover tells the

[tips] Three psychologists walk into a Bar mitzvah

[michael sylvester]

 Cancelled

Michael"omnicentric"Sylvester.PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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Re: [tips] Another mystery for Stephen Black

[Christopher D. Green]

It gets worse than that, Ken. There were two bishops involved. So it 
should be Bishops' University. :-)


Chris Green


Ken Steele wrote:


The name of the school is Bishop's University

but the email address is ubishops.ca.  Why isn't the address bishopsu.ca?


sbl...@ubishops.ca wrote:


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Appalachian State University
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Re: [tips] Three psychologists walk into a Bar mitzvah

[Christopher D. Green]

michael sylvester wrote:
>
>
>  Cancelled

I'm sensing denial of phallic issues in this erased-joke.  :-)

Chris
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York University
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
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RE: [tips] Gladwell redux

[Lilienfeld, Scott O]

More Gladwell grinchiness. happy holidays, all.Scott



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RE: [tips] Three psychologists walk into a bar...

[Jeffrey Nagelbush]

As far as I am concerned, at this time of year the best place to go in NYC is 
the Cloisters at Fr. Tryon park. The weather adds to the mood of the place. And 
those wonderful unicorn tapestries.

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Re: [tips] Three psychologists walk into a bar...

[Paul Brandon]

And if they've got some period music scheduled, so much the better.

On Dec 23, 2009, at 8:38 PM, Jeffrey Nagelbush wrote:

> As far as I am concerned, at this time of year the best place to go  
> in NYC is the Cloisters at Fr. Tryon park. The weather adds to the  
> mood of the place. And those wonderful unicorn tapestries.
>
> Jeff Nagelbush
> nagel...@hotmail.com
> Ferris State University

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Re: [tips] Another mystery for Stephen Black

[sblack]

On 23 Dec 2009 at 12:04, Ken Steele asked me:
> 
> The name of the school is Bishop's University
> 
> but the email address is ubishops.ca.  Why isn't the address 
> bishopsu.ca?

You've heard of YouTube? Then why not ubishops?

If you don't like that explanation, here's another. In Quebec, 
public signs in English are allowed, but the French must be 
"markedly predominant" over the English 
(http://tinyurl.com/yjcvh5l ), usually satisfied by putting the 
French first and/or making it larger.  So Bishop's is first of all the 
Universite Bishop's, and only then Bishop's University.  The rest 
is left as an exercise for the reader.

A graduate of Bishop's contributed this query:

> It gets worse than that, Ken. There were two bishops involved. 
> So it should be Bishops' University. :-)

The smiley from Chris suggests this is not to be taken seriously. 
But just in case it is, it is not my understanding.  Bishop's did 
have two co-founders in 1843, one a bishop with the 
magnificent name of George Jehoshaphat Mountain, the third 
Anglican Bishop of Quebec. The other was not a bishop but an 
Anglican priest with a less impressive name, Doolittle, Lucius 
Doolittle (which I hope amused the students). So I believe there 
was only one bishop involved.

Notwithstanding,  Bishop's was secularized in 1947 (meaning 
we became a public institution) with no remaining ties to the 
Anglican Church except history (and a curious position known 
as the Visitor).

Stephen

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[tips] Cannabis damages young brains

[sblack]

Read this news report. Then answer a simple question: who
were the subjects of this alarming study?
-
Cannabis Damages Young Brains More Than Originally
Thought, Study Finds

ScienceDaily (Dec. 20, 2009) - Canadian teenagers are
among the largest consumers of cannabis worldwide. The
damaging effects of this illicit drug on young brains are worse
than originally thought, according to new research by Dr.
Gabriella Gobbi, a psychiatric researcher from the Research
Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. The new study,
published in Neurobiology of Disease, suggests that daily
consumption of cannabis in teens can cause depression and
anxiety, and have an irreversible long-term effect on the brain.

"We wanted to know what happens in the brains of teenagers
when they use cannabis and whether they are more susceptible
to its neurological effects than adults," explained Dr. Gobbi, who
is also a professor at McGill University. Her study points to an
apparent action of cannabis on two important compounds in the
brain -- serotonin and norepinephrine -- which are involved in
the regulation of neurological functions such as mood control
and anxiety.

"Teenagers who are exposed to cannabis have decreased
serotonin transmission, which leads to mood disorders, as well
as increased norepinephrine transmission, which leads to
greater long-term susceptibility to stress," Dr. Gobbi stated.

Previous epidemiological studies have shown how cannabis
consumption can affect behaviour in some teenagers. "Our
study is one of the first to focus on the neurobiological
mechanisms at the root of this influence of cannabis on
depression and anxiety in adolescents," confirmed Dr. Gobbi. It
is also the first study to demonstrate that cannabis consumption
causes more serious damage during adolescence than
adulthood.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091217115834.h
tm or http://tinyurl.com/yc99kal



The answer is:

They studied rats, teenage rats. See for yourself.
Abstract of the published study at http://tinyurl.com/ygrcbye

It's not  the fault of the science daily journalist, though, because
this egregious misinformation is present in the original press
release from McGill University. Shame, McGill!
http://muhc.ca/newsroom/news/cannabis-and-adolescence-
dangerous-cocktail or http://tinyurl.com/yhyedn5

Stephen

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