Archive for August, 2007

Hash House Harriers in the news…

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

Two people who sprinkled flour in a parking lot to mark a trail for
their offbeat running club inadvertently caused a bioterrorism scare
and now face a felony charge.

What is America coming to?

Powered by ScribeFire.

The absence of stress is stress

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

I got some very, very good news this week, hearing that I’ll get a grant to fund some research that I’ve long wanted to do, which I imagine I’ll be discussing in this space more in the months ahead. To get it, I needed to convince a Federal agency to fund work that doesn’t fit [...]

Kids today — a failure of perspective taking.

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Yet another discussion of today’s “entitled” youth.

Personally, I don’t buy it. I was a bit worried in moving from the University of Illinois to the University of Michigan that I’d see more of this phenomenon, and I really haven’t noticed it.

Teachers and students have fundamentally different perspectives on the performance of an individual student in [...]