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Another awesome day of psychologically scientific hilarity and awesomeness.
The day started for me with a session entitled "Teaching Applied Cognitive Science," given by Roberta L. Klatzky. Fascinating to learn some of the ways that cognitive science gets applied in the real world (some things…
You may remember my post from last week involving a case where a postdoc sued her former boss for defamation when he retracted a couple of papers they coauthored together. After that post went up, a reader helpfully hooked me up with a PDF of District Judge Joseph M. Hood's ruling on the case (…
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I am exhausted. Today was a very long conference filled day followed by a very long baseball game at Fenway Park. My labmate, who is a bit of a baseball freak, in a moment of sheer brilliance, bought us STANDING ROOM ONLY tickets for the game. And so we stood. For >3 hours. My feet hurt. At…
Thank you!
I remember my mother trying to wash my dad's work clothes.
I also remember that my dad's mashed thumb (injured in a mining accident) had coal dust in the crevices of the injured part that he could never, ever get completely washed out.
Not to mention the coal dust in his lungs that couldn't be washed out, and that contributed to his death at age 57.
But, hey, yeah, let's talk about clean coal! Yippee!