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...
