Having filed grades and extricated myself from the demands of my job, at least temporarily, I have come with my better half and offspring to the stomping grounds of my better half's youth. Well, kind of....
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Posted on December 24, 2007 12:55 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In the 20/27 December 2007 issue of Nature, there's a fascinating commentary by Cambridge University neuroscientists Barbara Sahakian and Sharon Morein-Zamir. Entitled "Professor's little helper," this commentary explores, among other things, how "cognitive-enhancing drugs" are starting to find their way...
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Posted on December 19, 2007 1:02 PM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Another episode in the continuing saga, "Janet is a tremendous Luddite." Back when I was "between Ph.D.s" one of the things I did so I could pay rent was work as an SAT-prep tutor. The company I worked for didn't...
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Posted on June 29, 2007 6:44 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In the May 18th issue of Science, there's a nice review by Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick Weisberg [1] of the literature from developmental psychology that bears on the question of why adults in the U.S. are stubbornly resistant to...
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Posted on May 30, 2007 5:47 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks