Re: Student question

2001-01-26 Thread Thom Brown
Why would you have to imitate to learn this? Isn't just making random mouth configurations sufficient? And when there is a smile (high probability given the musculature), it's followed by reinforcers. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello - > > This is a cut and paste from my discussion board: >

Re: Butterfly Ballots

2000-11-12 Thread Thom Brown
Why do they need a larger font size? Are we to believe the good folks of Palm Beach County can't afford eyeglasses?! Rick Froman wrote: > > I still haven't heard anyone provide a better human factors alternative to > the Palm Beach ballot given the size of the ballot machine, the number of >

Re: Bertrand Russell

2000-11-01 Thread Thom Brown
Bertrand Russell, the English philosopher, mathematician, writer, and winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature, has written the following about behaviorists and behavior modification: "The Sentimentalist will say that if you really cared about the sufferings of others,

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2000-05-31 Thread Thom Brown
I was in Boston last week as my wife attended a conference. Since I knew the William James house was being developed into some apartment/condominiums, I thought I ought to head out to 95 Irving Street in Cambridge and see the place for myself. Turns out it's only about three blocks from William Ja

Re: Horsing around with Bacon

1999-10-08 Thread Thom Brown
g two and two together (memory of the story and memory of Anderson) and getting more than he should have. Stephen Black wrote: > > > Thom Brown wrote: > > > > >According to one of my colleagues, the passage is from Francis Bacon's > > >"Novum Organon&qu

Re: Back to Bacon

1999-10-06 Thread Thom Brown
According to one of my colleagues, the passage is from Francis Bacon's "Novum Organon" - at least that is a claim from someone who is very familiar with the text in the Anderson edition. Stephen Black wrote: > > I've now heard from Donald Simanek. He is unable to document > the horse's teeth pas

Re: Ethics of Animal Research

1999-09-23 Thread Thom Brown
The Foundation for Biomedical Research has all kinds of materials - videos, newsletters, brochures, etc. you can find them at: http://www.fbresearch.org/ You might also look at the following: http://www.tiac.net/users/sbr/animals.html http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/ http://