re:[tips] History of Psychology Fun Fact of the Day

On Tue, 20 May 2014 14:43:27 -0700, Christopher Green wrote: Back in 1909, a couple of reporters for the Chicago Tribune named Edwin Balmer & William MacHarg started writing a series of short stories about a "detective psychologist" named Luther Trant in the muckraking Hampton's Magazine. Luther

[tips] History of Psychology Fun Fact of the Day

Back in 1909, a couple of reporters for the Chicago Tribune named Edwin Balmer & William MacHarg started writing a series of short stories about a "detective psychologist" named Luther Trant in the muckraking Hampton's Magazine. Luther used chronoscopes and other pieces of "modern" lab equipmen

[tips] for Child Psych.

The following appeared in The Boston Globe Magazine on Sunday, and I thought it had some relevance as an anecdote for some Piaget concepts, though I'm not sure I can figure how many in the Concrete Operational Stage might apply. Perhaps: a lack of logic (since the child is only 10), hypothetical t

Re: [tips] Some Fish To Fry...

On 5/20/2014 4:11 PM, Mike Palij wrote: And a cannibal at that. See: http://www.livescience.com/45702-fanged-cannibal-lancetfish-north-carolina.html -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu The picture of the lancetfish I saw in the Charlotte Observer showed the fi

[tips] Some Fish To Fry...

And a cannibal at that. See: http://www.livescience.com/45702-fanged-cannibal-lancetfish-north-carolina.html -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. If you're not a fish fan, how about the world's oldest kitty cat? See: http://www.livescience.com/45725-oldest-living-cat-poppy.html

[tips] Memory Smackdown

Some Tipsters may be familiar with the Extreme Memory Tournament (XMT) where world-class memorists who have trained their memory skills for competition with a desire to lay the smackdown on their competitors. Well, they're at it again and the NY Times has an article on the recent XMT event; see: ht