[tips] How To Prepare For The Coming Zombie Apocalypse

2011-05-23 Thread Mike Palij
You can talk about the rapture and endtimes (which never occur) but it's time to be serious: What is your emergency plan for dealing with the coming Zombie Apocalypse? Now, this isn't just some idle speculation on my part that is part of my procrastination in doing course related work, no sir/ma

RE: [tips] How To Prepare For The Coming Zombie Apocalypse

2011-05-23 Thread Lilienfeld, Scott O
Mike is right that this is really happening; Emory (where I work) is immediately adjacent to CDC (in fact, it's pretty much just one gigantic Emory/CDC campus), and late last week I saw someone - presumably a CDC employee - walking around with a Zombie Apocalypse T-shirt. Go figure Sc

[tips] Zombies within

2011-05-23 Thread Gerald Peterson
They control those who are infectedyou will show signs of having no fear of zombies: see. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fatal-attraction G.L. (Gary) Peterson,Ph.D Psychology@SVSU --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here:

RE: [tips] Zombies within

2011-05-23 Thread Marc Carter
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.159.6699&rep=rep1&type=pdf This, of course, is real epidemiology, but it's clever as can be... m -- Marc Carter, PhD Associate Professor and Chair Department of Psychology College of Arts & Sciences Baker University -- > -Original Mes

RE: [tips] Bayesian hypothesis testing

2011-05-23 Thread Marc Carter
You make good points, Jim. They'll come into that class with a class in generic stats, but in my view that class (taught by the math department) is more a cookbook approach and doesn't really inform the students about what the stats mean and why they work. We've recently removed it as a requi

RE: [tips] How To Prepare For The Coming Zombie Apocalypse

2011-05-23 Thread Annette Taylor
We have an earthquake kit at home. All the recommended stuf and some that we bought from the redcross, including car kits we have in each vehicle. We keep the big kit it in the back yard in a sturdy rubbermade plastic container. Our yard is very small. It's quite near the house. Now here is my

RE: [tips] How To Prepare For The Coming Zombie Apocalypse

2011-05-23 Thread Mike Palij
On Mon, 23 May 2011 09:45:55 -0700, Annette Taylor wrote: >We have an earthquake kit at home. All the recommended stuf and >some that we bought from the redcross, including car kits we have in >each vehicle. We keep the big kit it in the back yard in a sturdy >rubbermade plastic container. Our

[tips] When Prophecy Fails

2011-05-23 Thread Lilienfeld, Scott O
I thought that some TIPSters might be interested in this story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110522/ap_on_re_us/us_apocalypse_saturday The following line in particular caught my attention, and surely would have put a smile on the faces of Festinger, Riecken, and Schachter: "Many followers said

[tips] Doomsday Believers Cope With An Intact World

2011-05-23 Thread Gerald Peterson
I found the following story on the NPR iPad App: http://www.npr.org/2011/05/23/136560695/doomsday-believers-cope-with-an-intact-world?sc=ipad&f=1001 Doomsday Believers Cope With An Intact World by Barbara Bradley Hagerty NPR - May 23, 2011 As recently as two weeks ago, Gary Vollmer was absolutely