Archive for September, 2003

Non-monotonic development

Wednesday, September 24th, 2003

<P>As a college student many years, I vividly remember sitting in a meeting&nbsp;at a Quaker conference and heard a man (I think we as an administrator at Indiana University) describe spiritual life as&nbsp;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

<P>I heard some of an interview with Donald Rumsfeld by Jim Lehrer a few days ago (the Pentagon has the transcript online here: <A href=”http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2003/tr20030911-secdef0665.html”>http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2003/tr20030911-secdef0665.html</A>)</P>
<P>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 [...]

Corn in the Sky

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2003

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<P>This is a belated picture from the Urbana Sweet Corn festival, which includes an eerie illuminated ear of corn over Main Street.</P>
<P>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 [...]