Re:[tips] Franklin's kite and other scientific myths

2011-06-09 Thread Allen Esterson
On 8 June 2011 Mike Palij wrote: I'm not sure that Skinner's Air Crib and rumors that his daughter was psychotic and a suicide should be considered a myth of psychology in the same sense as, say, We only use 10% of out brain or even the claim that Freud use icebergs as metaphors for the mind as he

Re:[tips] Jean Piaget Albert Einstein

2011-06-09 Thread Allen Esterson
I second Rick Froman's thanks to Kevin Grobman for the information about Einstein's links to Jean Piaget, of which I was unaware. But Rick makes a pertinent point when he notes that the exchanges took place well after Einstein had produced his relativity theories, the first of which was in

Re:[tips] Gould questioned in his measurements

2011-06-09 Thread Allen Esterson
On 8 June 2011 David Hogberg drew attention to an article alluding to this paper: The Mismeasure of Science: Stephen Jay Gould versus Samuel George Morton on Skulls and Bias. http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001071 Lewis et al write: Gould reanalyzed

Re: Re:[tips] Franklin's kite and other scientific myths

2011-06-09 Thread Mike Palij
NOTE: The full post by Allen that I am responding is provided after my signature. On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 03:06:01 -0700, Allen Esterson wrote: On 8 June 2011 Mike Palij wrote: I'm not sure that Skinner's Air Crib and rumors that his daughter was psychotic and a suicide should be considered a myth

[tips] TIPSTER OF THE WEEK

2011-06-09 Thread michael sylvester
RICK FROMAN Michael omnicentric Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=10926 or send a blank email to

[tips] Dentristry and Piaget

2011-06-09 Thread michael sylvester
All photos of Piaget I have seen seem to show that he only had one tooth,Did the Swiss-Obama heath care exclude dentristy? Michael --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here:

[tips] Redo: Dentistry and Piaget

2011-06-09 Thread michael sylvester
All photos of Piaget I have seen seem to show that he only had one tooth,Did the Swiss-Obama health care exclude dentistry? Michael --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: msylves...@copper.net. To unsubscribe click here:

re: [tips] Redo: Dentistry and Piaget

2011-06-09 Thread Mike Palij
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 05:50:32 -0700, Michael Sylvester wrote: All photos of Piaget I have seen seem to show that he only had one tooth,Did the Swiss-Obama health care exclude dentistry? Okay, let me put on my Psychic Powers Magnifier Helmet on and see if I can read Prof. Sylvester's mind on

Re: [tips] Jean Piaget Albert Einstein

2011-06-09 Thread K. H. Grobman
Hi Rick Everyone, Looking at some of Piaget's and Einstein's autobiographical writings side-by-side, I'm struck with how little Einstein mentions other people, and even how much rarer it is for Einstein to describe anecdotes with *anybody* (e.g., Out of My Later Years, Autobiographical