[tips] ONTOP 2014 Call For submissions & Registration Info

2014-07-25 Thread Kennison, Shelia
Dear Colleagues: We are pleased to announce that ONTOP 2014 will be held on Friday September 19th on the OSU-Stillwater campus in Willard Hall. ONTOP is a collaborative effort of the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Education at Oklahoma State University. We are pleased that thi

[tips] Religious children struggle separating fact from fiction

2014-07-25 Thread Beth Benoit
"The ability of young children to distinguish fact from fiction varies considerably with exposure to religion, two new studies have found. Children who did not attend parochial (religious) schools or church were significantly better at identifying characters in religious or fantasy stories as prete

Re: [tips] Leonardo da Vinci Was Wrong! It is a Boomerang!

2014-07-25 Thread Beth Benoit
I show both those photos in my Human Sexuality course, and ask students first what da Vinci got wrong. They never seem to see the "straight organ" (I used a euphemism here to avoid spam filters) but they do notice that there's a rather puzzling tube connecting the woman's nipple to her uterus. (I

RE: [tips] The NYT Reviews "Lucy", The Film Scarlett Johansson Goes From Using 10% of Her Brain To Slightly More...

2014-07-25 Thread Lilienfeld, Scott O
Yes. Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D. Professor Department of Psychology, Room 473 36 Eagle Row Emory University Atlanta, Georgia 30322 slil...@emory.edu P.S. Trying to win Mike S.'s new award for "Most Succinct TIPSTER of the Year." -Original Message- From: Mike Palij [mailto:m...@nyu.e

[tips] Leonardo da Vinci Was Wrong! It is a Boomerang!

2014-07-25 Thread Mike Palij
Okay, so it is summer and one needs a hook to get people to read articles because it's supposed to be a time of lazy leisure. So, what better hook can one have than reviewing how Leonardo de Vinci imagine what goes on internally (biologically not mentally) during sexual intercourse (Spiderman hooks

RE: [tips] The NYT Reviews "Lucy", The Film Scarlett Johansson Goes From Using 10% of Her Brain To Slightly More...

2014-07-25 Thread Mike Palij
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:11:31 -0700, William Scott wrote: Mike Palij points out: In this review Mr. Roston notes the "10%" myth and actually provides a link to a Scientific American article from 2008 on it; here is the article: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-people-only-use-10-perc

RE: [tips] The NYT Reviews "Lucy", The Film Scarlett Johansson Goes From Using 10% of Her Brain To Slightly More...

2014-07-25 Thread William Scott
Mike Palij points out: In this review Mr. Roston notes the "10%" myth and actually provides a link to a Scientific American article from 2008 on it; here is the article: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-people-only-use-10-percent-of-their-brains/ Do we need to de

[tips] The NYT Reviews "Lucy", The Film Scarlett Johansson Goes From Using 10% of Her Brain To Slightly More...

2014-07-25 Thread Mike Palij
I'm assuming that many Tipsters have seen one of the commercials for the movie "Lucy" (no, it's not about the primate mother of us all), where the big line (lie?) is said by Morgan Freeman (whose credibility will now be forever in doubt) that humans use only 10% of their brain - though this might