by Craig Marker | Sep 6, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from Mahalonbis’ Distance:The book Satisfaction by Gregory Berns is a quick and interesting read. There are a few profound nuggets in here, basically, that much of life is centered not on pleasure or happiness, but rather satisfaction. In fact,...
by Craig Marker | Aug 30, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from Livescience.com:Overall, the public greatly underestimates the incidence of suicide. About 30,000 people die by suicide each year in America. It is the ninth leading cause of death in this country, and higher for men than women. And it’s not just...
by Craig Marker | Aug 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
Here is an excerpt from Supercrunchers, in which the author (a lawyer) discussed what makes an article more likely to be cited by other authors: As a law professor, my primary publishing job is to write law review articles. I don’t get paid for them, but a central...
by Craig Marker | Aug 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
Here is an abstract from the Journal of Consumer Research: The Influence of Ceiling Height: The Effect of Priming on the Type of Processing That People Use Authors: Joan Meyers-Levy & Rui (Juliet) Zhu Abstract: This article demonstrates that variations in ceiling...
by Craig Marker | Aug 22, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from Livescience.com: A new weather-forecasting model based on autumn snowfall in Siberia could help meteorologists predict winter temperatures and snowfall in the United States and Europe. The model results, reported this week in the Journal of Climate,...
