Timely Snow

I’m always struck by how dangerous the environment is here. Today I was struck by that fact a little harder than I might have liked.

The USA, oddly but somewhat appropriately, is a large homage to vitamins.

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I took some pictures of the renovated park that follows the old Yuan Dynasty city wall and moat that form part of my regular running route. If you look back in time, there are pictures during the reconstruction that took place last Spring. It’s a real delight to see [...]

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Here’s a picture of the new main administration building at Beijing Normal University, which I think is a really beautiful example of modern architecture. I haven’t been inside yet, so I’ll let you know what the inside of the package is like.
Today I ran my standard loop around [...]

I made it to Beijing, and if you can read this, it means that posting to this site from the slow dialup connection in the Beijing Normal University Zhuanjialou (Foreign Experts building) works. The flight went pretty smoothly, although I didn’t feel that well through most of it. I ended up sleeping most of [...]

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The picture shows my collaborator, Fang Ge of the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, my former Chinese tutor, Cao Xiuhong, and her husband and my former grad student, Gary Feng, now a professor at Duke.
Tomorrw I return to Beijing for my first visit since the [...]

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Over the weekend I travelled to Los Angeles and Irvine to meet a friend and collaborator, Jim Stigler, and to go to the meeting of the US National Committee for the International Union of Psychological Science, a group I belong to.
I sat next to Alan Kraut, who is the [...]

Merry Bullock gave me this great link on the APA website for large datasets available for analysis. It looks like a neat resource.
Here it is:
<a href=”http://www.apa.org/science/data/links.html”>http://www.apa.org/science/data/links.html</a>

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I’m travelling to Irvine, California, to the Beckman Center for a meeting of a committee I’m on, the US National Committee for the International Union of Psychological Sciences. The trip started out with a near disaster — the volume on my radio was set too low, so I ended [...]

Video conference systems will be “good enough” when participants look at the screen rather than turning to look at the people at their local site.