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...
by Craig Marker | Aug 2, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from the NY Times:In a recent experiment, psychologists at Yale altered people’s judgments of a stranger by handing them a cup of coffee. The study participants, college students, had no idea that their social instincts were being deliberately manipulated....
by Craig Marker | Aug 1, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from the Freakonomics Blog:getting published is a brutal process. You spend a year or two coming up with an idea, try to think over every aspect of the problem, collect and analyze data, and finally produce a 30-page paper summarizing all the work. You can...
by Craig Marker | Jul 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
From theonion.com
by Craig Marker | Jul 25, 2007 | Uncategorized
This is a sign I could not resist taking a picture of while exiting a restaurant on my recent trip to California. I am not sure whether I would have ate any differently had I seen this picture before entering the restaurant (maybe they should say a little more on what...
by Craig Marker | Jul 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
A recent New England Journal of Medicine article discussed that estrogen may reduce the risk of arterial sclerosis. Maholonobis’ blog discusses how one article does not lead to conclusive findings on any topic: last week, the (Wall Street) Journal did a story...
by Craig Marker | Jul 23, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from Livescience.com: Deciphering curveballs from fastballs and balls from strikes requires that a player’s eyes precisely lock onto the ball, as described in recently published research on humans’ ability to track balls and other moving...
