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,...
by Craig Marker | Aug 21, 2007 | Uncategorized
The American Psychological Association released a statement on torture recently. Here is an excerpt:… mock executions, water-boarding or any other form of simulated drowning or suffocation, sexual humiliation, rape, cultural or religious humiliation,...
by Craig Marker | Aug 18, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from the Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science Blog:In this discussion of Allegra Goodman’s book novel Intuition, Barry wrote, “brilliant people are at least as capable of being dishonest as ordinary people.” The novel...
by Craig Marker | Aug 14, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from Slate.com:In Sunday’s New York Times, science writer Gina Kolata took on studies suggesting that men tend to have more sexual partners than women do. This CDC study, for one, shows that American men between the ages of 20 and 59 report...
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...
