I haven't been to the beach yet this year because it's been too cold for me
although people do go; they tend to be from other parts of the planet. We have
what we call may gray and june gloom and it's still not over this
year--very cloudy and overcast along the coast, so that we get unclouded
How did you get your sense of smell back? That seems more noteworthy!
Was there a particular reason you only lost it temporarily? I thought once it
was gone, it was gone for good.
Annette
Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
University of San Diego
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego,
Karl,
I still use your stories about toaster burning the bread and the green (sorry
Chris!) food and your wife yelling at you.
It's difficult to understand life without smell!
Jim
Jim Matiya
Florida Gulf Coast University
jmat...@fgcu.edu
Contributor, for Karen Huffman's Psychology
I do have to chime in here. We spent the Winter (Nov-March) on Coronado Island
just west of San Diego and
had sun 92% of the time with average temp on or around 65 degrees. No myth, we
are going back for a longer stay
in September. That is what retirement allows. mike
Michael J. Lavin
After being anosmic for many years, I finally went and saw a
specialist. The problem seems to be inflammation that blocks the flow of air
to the olfactory mucosa and/or which pinches the olfactory fibers as they pass
through the cribriform plate. Surgery and systemic steroids allowed
Not that anyone with an iota of sense needed formal empirical evidence
that having kids (or anyone else) tell themselves over and over again
that they are great fails to raise their self-esteem, but here it is
nonetheless.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8132857.stm
Poor old Emil Coue and
Attempts to find culture-free or culture fair instruments have been a major
problem for Eurocentric psychology.Not only do I have a beef with psychometric
testing in this regard,but also with those so called projective tests like the
TAT and that inkblot test (Rorshach.It does appear that
Christopher D
Not that anyone with an iota of sense needed formal empirical evidence that
having kids (or anyone else) tell themselves over and over again that they are
great fails to raise their self-esteem, but here it is nonetheless.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8132857.stm
Exactly. mid-60's; I think the myth is that it's always warmer than
that--around the low 80's, and that we practically live at the beach because of
the weather. In reality we can have an active outdoor lifestyle because it's
just right--just not in the water! Of course, Coronado has the coastal
Some psychologists may be interested in a recent post Re: Persistent
Myths in Feminist Scholarship [Hake (2009)].
The abstract reads:
**
ABSTRACT: Stephen Black, in a TIPS (Teaching in the Psychological
Sciences) post of 3 July 2009 called attention to
Some years ago (5? 10? 15?) Stephen Black offered his thoughts on the
uselessness of the BMI (my paraphrase).
Here are the Top 10 Reasons Why the BMI Is Bogus according to Weekend
Edition math guy Keith Devlin.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106268439sc=fbcc=
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