Archive for September, 2003

Non-monotonic development

Wednesday, September 24th, 2003

As a college student many years, I vividly remember sitting in a meeting at a Quaker conference and heard a man (I think we as an administrator at Indiana University) describe spiritual life as a matter of learning, forgetting, relearning, forgetting again (and you get the picture). That was one of the most depressing things I could [...]

“I don’t do hypotheticals”

Tuesday, September 16th, 2003

I heard some of an interview with Donald Rumsfeld by Jim Lehrer a few days ago (the Pentagon has the transcript online here: http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2003/tr20030911-secdef0665.html)
Rumsfeld has a distinctive way of doing interviews, where he asks most of the questions and answers them as well, but he must have a very commanding presence given the way no [...]

Corn in the Sky

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2003

This is a belated picture from the Urbana Sweet Corn festival, which includes an eerie illuminated ear of corn over Main Street.
Lots to do this week, including giving a lecture on Research Methods in Psychology 216, a big team-taught introduction to developmental psychology. One aspect of the course that I’ve found frustrating is a set [...]