On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:02:44 -0400, William Scott wrote:
This was in the unabomber manifesto, I think.
Give the man a Cohiba! As mentioned in Dooling's article,
Kurzweil apparently is fond of presenting the quote to folks
and then asking who is the author (i.e., Ted Kaczynski).
For people who
Thanks, Jody: Having been retired for nearly ten (!) years, I'm not doing much
down-in-the-trenches work, at least on a regular basis. Are you a member of
either APA Div 2 or TOPSS? It would seem to me that they (esp) TOPSS would
like to be made aware of the Michigan situation. I don't know
I think there is a way to be sometimes uncertain about content, etc. but
weakness in the sense of giving up authority and control to one's own self-
doubts, and putting that on the table for the students is simply not
appropriate,
IMHO. Students need the sense of leadership that comes from
I totally agree with Annette on this issue. I learned the lesson on
weakness very rapidly when I first served as a high school and middle
school substitute. Man, when those kids smell blood (leadership weakness
on the teachers' part) s/he can easily lose control of the class. Those
experiences as
Do no harm is a precept associated with the medical profession.Is there a
similar precept for psychological science? Let me suggest this one-
Psychologists do it with understanding.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:56:47 -0500
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Hi All, again, and thanks for the replies I've gotten (both on- and
off-list).
Most of the replies have been something along the lines of our honors
graduates do X very
Annette- First, I didn't see what you said as rambling at all. Very well said.
I also would guess that our teaching styles are different and that may well be
because of several things. Not the least of which is that we teach different
things in completely different types of institutions. Even
Our local union paper included the following, with respect to the issue of
psychology in the high schools:
The
Office of Professional Preparation Services (OPPS) has notified Michigan
colleges and
universities that the following endorsements, as of January 1, 2009, will no
longer be available
The memo Jeff Nagelbush provided is the one I was sent. Martha Borneau is aware
of it and has promised to look into it. A few of us have emailed Dr. Jenkins
and her response has been to defer/refer us to Catherine Smith. A few years ago
Dr. Smith had stated that she knew Michigan needed state
Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving to all of you out there. We do everything
first up here. :-)
Tomorrow, for instance, we have our federal election (after a campaign
of only 30-some days, rather than the two-year super-marathon of US
elections). We have five political parties seriously in the
Christopher DWhy don't Canadians have a national cricket team to compete in the
World matches as are other members of the British commonwealth?
Michael
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As in the US, the stock market/banking downturn has become the surprise
over-riding issue.
The likely outcome will be another minority Conservative government.
The conventional wisdom of the US punditocracy is that the party in power in
the
http://www.canadiancricket.org/index.jsp
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Christopher DWhy don't Canadians have a
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_national_cricket_team
However, to a first approximation, the only people who play cricket in
Canada are immigrants from the Caribbean and from the Indian
subcontinent. Canada's national game is lacrosse (officially) and ice
hockey (unofficially).
Chris
Rick Froman wrote:
*From:* Christopher D. Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
As in the US, the stock market/banking downturn has become the
surprise over-riding issue.
The likely outcome will be another minority Conservative government.
*/ /*
The conventional wisdom of the US punditocracy
The deadline for EPA is only a few weeks off.The call for submissions
for the March 5-8 2009 Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association
is now open. We look forward to hearing from you. The meeting is at
the Westin Convention Center
in Pittsburgh PA. The deadline for submissions is
This Candid Camera video just surfaced on Digg.
http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/165244/Elevator-Psychology.html?rh=173711
In this segment, the subject steps into an elevator, and 3 people step in
behind him, all facing the back wall. Stick around to the end of the clip for
the variation.
This has failed to be replicated outside the United States questionning its
external validity.We should be careful that we do not apply U.S-centric
ideas to the greater outside world.After all we are a very small percentage
of the world
population and not statistically significant.And so are
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