by Craig Marker | Aug 13, 2007 | Uncategorized
There has been much said in the past few years about how emotions and reasoning are quite inseparable. Antonio Damasio and colleagues did a unique study published in 1994 using the Iowa Gambling Task. Here is Wikipedia’s explanation of the task:The Iowa gambling...
by Craig Marker | Aug 9, 2007 | Uncategorized
An earlier entry had some interesting quotes from Bruce Lee. There is another story from one of Bruce Lee’s students. Bruce Lee and his student were out running and they were trying to go a little faster and further than usual. The student protested, citing that...
by Craig Marker | Aug 8, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from livescience.com: Split-second facial expressions made by others—and the feelings they betray—might go unnoticed by your conscious mind, but apparently they do register subliminally. Reading these subtle clues in faces can guide the brain, resulting in...
by Craig Marker | Aug 7, 2007 | Uncategorized
Below is a pretty good video of what happens in intensive exposure:
by Craig Marker | Aug 6, 2007 | Uncategorized
On this blog there have been quotes from Rob Zombie and Donald Rumsfeld, Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine, and Bruce Lee. Now, we can add Ichiro Suzuki, of the Seattle Mariners. Slate.com has an interesting article describing some of the weird things he has said (below is...
by Craig Marker | Aug 3, 2007 | Uncategorized
Here is an excerpt from Charles Wheelan discussing the difficulty in assessing school outcomes:We don’t really even know which schools are good schools….Think of it this way: If a golf pro gives Tiger Woods a lesson, and a different golf pro gives me a...
