[tips] Cancer screening & stats

2010-03-13 Thread Christopher D. Green
michael sylvester wrote: > > U.S health authorities are back at it again. > > First they said that early attempts at mammograms are not necessary > > and women should wait tii they are 50. Now they are saying that those > > prostrate screening tests are unreliable,no need to get them,and > > progno

[tips] To bend or not to bend

2010-03-13 Thread michael sylvester
U.S health authorities are back at it again. First they said that early attempts at mammograms are not necessary and women should wait tii they are 50. Now they are saying that those prostrate screening tests are unreliable,no need to get them,and prognosis for recovery is just as good by doing

[tips] A Moment for Kitty Genovese

2010-03-13 Thread Mike Palij
On March 13, 1964, at about 3:00 am, Kitty Genovese was attacked and killed and became part of the history of psychology. To make sure that we're clear on what happened that day, I recommend Harold Takooshian's review of Abraham Rosenthal's "Thirty-Eight Witnesses" and Charles Skoller's "Twisted C

RE: [tips] Random Thought: A Quickie On Seeing Each Student

2010-03-13 Thread Louis Schmier
Yeah, I admit that it went longer than I supposed it would. Sorry. Make it a good day.   --Louis-- Louis Schmier    http://www.therandomthoughts.com Department of History   http://www.therandomthoughts.edublogs.org    Valdosta State University

Re: [tips] Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent

2010-03-13 Thread Christopher D. Green
John Kulig wrote: > Interesting. Even in the US the terms are undergoing transformations. The > current Obama administration (like Clinton's) is nowhere near "liberal" > compared to Franklin Roosevelt or Lyndon Johnson. There's a very good reason that Obama's no FDR. He doesn't have anything

Re: [tips] Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent

2010-03-13 Thread Christopher D. Green
Allen Esterson wrote: > Oh, dear, the perils of translating from the UK to the US! Do not > conflate the American use of the term "liberal" with what is meant in > Britain by "Liberal". Although the history of UK's Liberal Democrats has some relevance here, the problem is translating from th

Re: [tips] Random Thought: A Quickie On Seeing Each Student

2010-03-13 Thread Christopher D. Green
A 1300-word "quickie"? I've given essay assignments that are shorter. :-) Chris Green York U. Toronto == Louis Schmier wrote: The students had been working on and presenting "The Song" project. You should have seen them! You should have read their original lyrics!! These are

[tips] Live Tweets from the EPA conference

2010-03-13 Thread Michael Britt
As I mentioned about two weeks ago I attended the Eastern Psychological Association conference in NYC and live tweeted the event. I found it quite fun (although Internet access wasn't always available in the conference rooms unfortunately). In case you'd like to take a look at what I twee

Re: [tips] Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent

2010-03-13 Thread John Kulig
Interesting. Even in the US the terms are undergoing transformations. The current Obama administration (like Clinton's) is nowhere near "liberal" compared to Franklin Roosevelt or Lyndon Johnson. Even more bizarre is that when the Clintons pushed for single-payer health care system in the 1990s

Re:[tips] Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent

2010-03-13 Thread Allen Esterson
From "Are Liberals Smarter Than Conservatives?", by John Cloud in "Time", cited by Stephen Black: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1968042,00.html "These aren't entirely new findings; last year, for example, a British team found that kids with higher intelligence scores were more

[tips] Random Thought: A Quickie On Seeing Each Student

2010-03-13 Thread Louis Schmier
The students had been working on and presenting "The Song" project. You should have seen them! You should have read their original lyrics!! These are students who had surprised themselves because they had accepted, as they moaned and groaned, that they couldn't write, that they couldn