Thank, Mike, for your very comprehensive response to my queries
regarding Joan's posting. The only book on Hitler on the shelves of my
local library is *The Hidden Hitler* (2001), by the German historian
Lothar Machtan. It is not actually a biography, and he only deals with
Hitler's story
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:27:36 -0700, Allen Esterson wrote:
Thank, Mike, for your very comprehensive response to my queries
regarding Joan's posting.
Again, to be clear, the CBS miniseries controversy seems to
match some of the characterizations that Joan mentioned in
her post but it possible
Some may be surprised to find that Alice Miller died in April of this year.
Her website (alice-miller.com) is still up, and makes no mention, that I
could find, of her death. There is a great deal of information in the
website about Miller's unflagging contention that childhood physical abuse
Hi folks- looking for a short accessible read on the use of animals in
psychological research. I'd actually welcome one pro and one con, though I'd
settle on just pro for now. I'm teaching a first year College Seminar course
(using Hock's Forty Studies That Changed Psychology) and wanted
Ok, I'm going to go out on a limb here. First of all, I admit to being a
huge fan of magicians (illusionists, if you prefer that term). I am not a
huge fan of the show, America's Got Talent. But
That show has a couple of pretty good magicians this year. Relationship to
psychology? This
Thank you to both Don and Gary for the comments on these clips. Yeah, I had
assumed that the tiger act involved prisms or some such to mask his original
appearance. I will say, however, that I'm still a bit puzzled by the other
one! Where the devil did that second gal come from?
In any
Does your institution have a policy of having a colleague attend and observe an
adjunct's teaching or junior faculty in class?
Should this be done unannounced? And should the observer stay for the full
class period? If you have been subject to a classroom observation,did you
forewarn the
Here is a trick I actually use in Perception class. I usually throw
it in during the color section:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppvGwKpUfMQ
The decks are reasonably priced and the trick is easy to learn. It
always gets them. I think it also can work when you want to explain how
