[tips] Where Were You On This Date 46 Years Ago?

2009-11-22 Thread Mike Palij
Brown Kulik (1977) introduced the construct of flashbulb memories in an article in Cognition (vol 5(1), p73-99) and, as a prototypical example, they used a memory for an event relevant to today. The abstract to the article follows: |Abstract |Flashbulb Memories are memories for the

[tips] From Academic to Billionaire: The Story of SAS

2009-11-22 Thread Mike Palij
James H. Goodnight, co-founder of the company that produced the statistical software company Statistical Analysis System (SAS, though today SAS is just a brand name) and its current chief executive, started out at the argicultural statistics department at North Carolina State University, has gone

Re: [tips] Where Were You On This Date 46 Years Ago?

2009-11-22 Thread roig-reardon
Upon hearing of president Kennedy's assassination, I had a reaction similar to Mike's. I was 6 years old and playing with my plastic WWII toy soldiers in our living room/dining room floor in Cuba. My mother was in the kitchen and our front door was open. Suddenly, our next door neighbor, a

[tips] Dystonic cheerleader update

2009-11-22 Thread sblack
Desiree Jennings, the cheerleader with the bizarre affliction of dystonia she attributes to receiving a seasonal flu shot, has made an amazing recovery. She now has her own website, here: http://www.desireejennings.com/ But the good news is here:

Re: [tips] Where Were You On This Date 46 Years Ago?

2009-11-22 Thread Britt, Michael
I thought that I heard something about there being recent research on flashbulb memories which indicated that people were nearly as accurate with these types of memories as they thought they were. Don't remember the reference right now. I'll see if I can dig it up. Michael Britt

Re: [tips] Dystonic cheerleader update

2009-11-22 Thread Allen Esterson
Dr Buttar is reported as saying: We took the toxins out of her system, we supported her system, we reduced inflammation and we started treating her injuries by giving her a certain amount of nutrients that the brain needed to repair the neuroreceptors,. Sounds to me like the standard

Re: [tips] Dystonic cheerleader update

2009-11-22 Thread Jonathan Mueller
The Chicago Tribune started a series on alternative treatments for autism today in its paper (subtitled dubious medicine). It looks like a good article today on chelation and other treatments. http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/chi-autism-treatments-nov22,0,1396079.story Jon

Re: [tips] Where Were You On This Date 46 Years Ago?

2009-11-22 Thread taylor
I was in boarding school in France. I was 12 years old and remember that during the elections my family had voted Republican despite the fact that we were staunch Catholics. My father really liked Nixon (something I find surprising now but I can't ask him about it as he passed away 30 years

Re: [tips] Dystonic cheerleader update

2009-11-22 Thread taylor
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[tips] Remember Those Free Copies of the On the Origin of the Species Being Given Out by Fundamentalists?

2009-11-22 Thread Mike Palij
At least one source points out that some of these copies have a 50 page introduction which attacks the volume; see: http://www.dailytech.com/AntiEvolution+Actor+Modifies+Darwins+Work+With+Questionable+Intro/article16892.htm or http://tinyurl.com/ycfu3mp I admit that there are big holes in my pop

Re: [tips] Dystonic cheerleader update

2009-11-22 Thread sblack
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Re: [tips] Remember Those Free Copies of the On the Origin of the Species Being Given Out by Fundament

2009-11-22 Thread Jim Clark
Hi This creationist effort has been around for the past few months and is about to hit certain Canadian universities on 24 Nov. You can see responses discrediting the information in the insert and more at http://ncse.com/ If you follow the Don't Diss Darwin link, you will find a list of the