Loony alert (and hide those VCRs)

2005-12-27 Thread sblack
Tomy has broken five VCRs in the family home using only his energy force, Kaufman said. http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/13331476.htm Check out the must-see film at http://www.theindigoevolution.com/film.html Coming soon to a church near you:

Re: Loony alert (and hide those VCRs)

2005-12-27 Thread Paul Smith
It's clear that those children are FAR too special to ever attend college. ;) Paul Smith Alverno College MilwaukeeOn 12/27/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tomy has broken five VCRs in the family home using only his energy force,Kaufman said.

Intro to Theory of Evolution Article

2005-12-27 Thread Jean-Marc Perreault
Greetings all, I have found in the past that the Theory of Evolution is not well understood by most of my students (1st year psych.). I seem to give the theory as much time as I possibly can in an already overloaded course, without the students really grasping the importance of the

Re: Intro to Theory of Evolution Article

2005-12-27 Thread Paul Smith
You might consider sending them to the alt.talk.origins site and have them read and present on articles there: http://www.talkorigins.org/ Or have them just analyze the FAQ there: http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/faqs-qa.html I'd say it's even more reliable than wikipedia. Paul Smith

Re: Google problem?

2005-12-27 Thread Jim Dougan
At 09:36 PM 12/26/2005, you wrote: On the question of why I can't access Google search while other sites work fine, I've made progress. There probably are a few who are now curious about my problem, so I thought I'd give you a report. Typing the Google url into the address window gets me an

Re: Google problem?

2005-12-27 Thread sblack
[off-list] On 27 Dec 2005 at 12:37, Jim Dougan wrote: I know you dismissed my suggestion earlier - but this sounds like a browser hijacking. I had similar symptoms a while back - being unable to get to specific websites - and it was indeed a hijacking. Have you tried using a different

Re: Intro to Theory of Evolution Article

2005-12-27 Thread Chuck Huff
The Economist magazine just came out with a section on human evolution. I skimmed it and the bits I saw seemed done well. -Chuck Greetings all, I have found in the past that the Theory of Evolution is not well understood by most of my students (1st year psych.). I seem to give

Re: Intro to Theory of Evolution Article

2005-12-27 Thread Tom Harlow
Is this the economist article? http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=5327621no_na_tran=1I've always liked Stephen J. Gould's writing on evolution. This introductory speech at Stanford highlights some of his work: http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/gould/--Tom

Re: Intro to Theory of Evolution Article

2005-12-27 Thread Christopher D. Green
Chapter 4 of Origin of Species? :-) Regards, Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 416-736-5115 ext. 66164 fax: 416-736-5814 http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ .

Re: Intro to Theory of Evolution Article

2005-12-27 Thread Chuck Huff
Is this the economist article? http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=5327621no_na_tran=1http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=5327621no_na_tran=1 Yes, but the paper version (imagine that!) has several articles rather than just the leader. Also, I

RE: Intro to Theory of Evolution Article

2005-12-27 Thread John Kulig
A nice introduction of Darwinian theory vis-a-vis psychololgy is Ch 2 of Gaulin and McBurney's "Evolutionary Psychology", second edition, Prentice Hall (2004). I suspect one of the more challenging concepts to swallow in Darwinian thinking is the lack of "intelligent design"- then and