Random Thought: Why Do I Have To Wait?

2004-11-23 Thread louis schmier
When I retire, I will _(fill in the blank with something joyful). If you read the newspapers, with companies going bankrupt and government taking over corporate pension funds, retirement doesn't appear to be so much of a guaranteed guarantee, appealing prospect, or blissful

Re: Church Air Poses Risk

2004-11-23 Thread Allen Esterson
Chris Green wrote re candles in church: So iturns out that Chruch is bad for one's health after all. :-) Let me try that again: So it turns out that Church is bad for one's health after all. Sorry, the Devil made me do it. :-) That reminds me of an aphorism by the Polish writer Stanislaw J.

RE: Yet another criminal liberal social science professor

2004-11-23 Thread Marc Carter
The Times article mentions a desire to remove political considerations for hiring and personnel decisions. I'm just curious: I've interviewed for several jobs, and haven't ever had my political orientation questioned. I'm wondering exactly where political considerations enter into hiring

Re: A little more help from my friends

2004-11-23 Thread Maxwell Gwynn
Michael: Thanks for the info. I think I'll be able to track it down now. -Max Maxwell Gwynn, PhD Undergraduate Advisor Department of PsychologyWilfrid Laurier University75 University Avenue WestWaterloo, ON N2L 3C5 Canada (519) 884-0710 ext 3854[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/22/2004

Re: Yet another criminal liberal social science professor

2004-11-23 Thread Patricia Spiegel
Sorry I have not been following this whole thread, but I recall many years ago (30!) in California hiring a young man and informing him that he got the job. The university president, however, reversed the departmental decision because he had learned that the man was a political activist.

RE: Church Air Poses Risk

2004-11-23 Thread John Kulig
Is this Stanislaw LEM? John W. Kulig Professor of Psychology Plymouth State College Plymouth NH 03264 Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the

RE: Church Air Poses Risk

2004-11-23 Thread Paul Smith
That was my first thought too, but I googled it, and no, it is Lec. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee -Original Message- From: John Kulig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 11/23/2004 11:07 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Subject: RE: Church Air Poses Risk Is this

RE: Church Air Poses Risk

2004-11-23 Thread Paul Brandon
Title: RE: Church Air Poses Risk For the uninitiated, Stanislaw Lem is a science fiction author. At 11:53 AM -0600 11/23/04, Paul Smith wrote: That was my first thought too, but I googled it, and no, it is Lec. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee -Original Message- From: John Kulig

The Great Betrayal

2004-11-23 Thread Allen Esterson
TIPSters may have read reviews of a recently published book *The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science*, by Horace Freeland Judson. A copy arrived yesterday from Amazon, and I haven’t had the opportunity to read it properly as yet, but naturally I first turned to the index to find topics of which I

Re: The Great Betrayal

2004-11-23 Thread Allen Esterson
A correction to my last posting on Judson's book *The Great Betrayal*. I wrote: p. 86. Judson writes (correctly) that the original edition of Freud’s letters to Fliess was published in censored form in 1950 in German (he omits to mention the English language edition of 1954). But when he writes

RE: Church Air Poses Risk

2004-11-23 Thread Allen Esterson
John Kulig asked concerning my posting about Stanislaw J. Lec: Is this Stanislaw LEM? For quite a while I had taken them to be one and the same, but on looking in *Unkempt Thoughts* recently I noticed that the name on the cover was clearly different from that of the great Polish science fiction

CUR Call for Councilors

2004-11-23 Thread Vincent Prohaska
Hi All, The mission of the COUNCIL ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH (CUR) is to support and promote high-quality undergraduate student-faculty collaborative research and scholarship. The structure of CUR is by academic division and it governance is done by 24 Councilors elected by the membership of

Obesity study overstated problem, CDC admits

2004-11-23 Thread Christopher D. Green
Since this topic has recently come up on this list... http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041123.wpork1123/BNPrint/specialScienceandHealth/ -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 416

Book on Freud

2004-11-23 Thread Miguel Roig
Hi, folks. I have a fairly capable, first-year psychology major who is interested in learning about Freud's theories and he has asked me to recommend a book that summarizes his work. I realize that in the recent past, a number of books and papers on Freud have been mentioned in the context of

Re: Church Air Poses Risk

2004-11-23 Thread Jim Guinee
So iturns out that Chruch is bad for one's health after all. :-) http://news.yahoo.com/news? tmpl=storycid=573u=/nm/health_churches_dcprinter=1 -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 Hi Chris! We've been discussing this study

RE: Can God cut your medical bills?

2004-11-23 Thread Jim Guinee
Aubyn wrote... What get's you excited about this Jim? (SNIP) Even though the article makes reference to the power of prayer there certainly is nothing in these studies that supports that Jim Wrote... Imagine if studies demonstrated absolutely no difference for religious/non-religious

Re: Book on Freud

2004-11-23 Thread Annette Taylor, Ph. D.
These two are on my Amazon.com wish list. I don't know about their availability or suitability to a freshman. Annette Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend by Frederick Crews Seductive Mirage: An Exploration of the Work of Sigmund Freud by Allen Esterson Annette Kujawski Taylor,

Re: Book on Freud

2004-11-23 Thread sblack
I don't think this made it out, so I'm trying again. On 23 Nov 2004 at 19:43, Miguel Roig wrote: Hi, folks. I have a fairly capable, first-year psychology major who is interested in learning about Freud's theories and he has asked me to recommend a book that summarizes his work. I realize