I just come across these two excellent articles that point out many wrong ideas that we can have in life. Interestingly, I find most are also our attitude towards scientific research. Try not to do that. Top 10 Common Faults in Human Thought 10 More Common Faults in Human Thought
Just watched this over lunch. A very good speech.
It has always been my role to tell you the reality and teach you how to fish, and not giving you a fish, nor the bogus “American Dream” or things-will-somehow-get-better hope. I have been saying for a while that the economy is going to be much worse and now the really hard time is going […]
A nice documentary by Paul Nurse, a Nobel laureates in 2001 for his work on cell cycle, on public skepticism on scientific findings. There are a number of interesting articles with the opposite view, some even from the people who were interviewed in the documentary. How BBC warmists abuse the science In paricluar, James Delingpole […]
Um… Purdue needs to be more creative.
Neuroscience Kinkhabwala A, Riley M, Koyama M, Monen J, Satou C, Kimura Y, Higashijima SI, Fetcho J. A structural and functional ground plan for neurons in the hindbrain of zebrafish. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Jan 3. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21199947. Koyama M, Kinkhabwala A, Satou C, Higashijima SI, […]
I have just received this article, “How America Messed Up Its Kids… And How We Can Fix Them“, from a fellow professor in the department. Here is an except of it: Teenager: “Please, Mom and Dad, just let me do this, and I promise that I will take full responsibility for it.” Parent: “Do you […]
Upper D. The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of “writer’s block”. J Appl Behav Anal. 1974 Fall;7(3):497. PubMed PMID: 16795475; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1311997. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1311997/pdf/jaba00061-0143a.pdf