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When thinking of a child with ADD, most people will picture an easily-distracted hyperactive child... long on energy, and short on attention span.  And although that is sometimes the case, that description accurately describes only a portion of c ...

Article - Kimberly Crandell - Jan 25 2009 - 10:38pm - 0 attachments

The three problems of humanity were outlined in a talk by Nick Bostrom (of Oxford University, UK) at TED in April 2009.   While I'm sure there are some that will consider these points to be quite reasonable in setting goals, I'm continuously amazed at ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Dec 4 2010 - 7:26pm - 0 attachments

Altruism has had a lot of bad press in recent times. It’s been used, abused, manipulated and misunderstood. Let’s look at some background. It all began with a paper submitted by WD Hamilton in 1964 in which he put forward a view of altruism that was p ...

Article - Steve Davis - May 3 2009 - 5:37pm - 0 attachments

... thought process is heavily guided by compulsions of global conformity rather than local needs. What  is a coaching Institute? A ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jun 18 2012 - 7:32pm - 0 attachments

Both in her recent appearance on KQED’s Forum talk show and in her blog , Stanford University’s Joan Roughgarden continues her campaign to discredit me and my book, The Man Who Would Be Queen. Roughgarden’s rate of false accusations per ...

Article - Michael Bailey - Sep 5 2007 - 11:33am - 0 attachments

A social psychologist who doesn't spend his days finding ways to rationalize being progressive? University of Virginia Prof. Jonathan Haidt certainly was a partisan liberal, he says, but researching John Kerry's failure to connect with voters in 2004 ma ...

Cool Link - Hank Campbell - Jun 3 2012 - 1:22pm - 0 attachments

Dr. Paul Offit is the Hillary Clinton of the autism world. Or is he? It seems really unfair that a well-respected pediatrician and infectious disease expert who has devoted his career to saving lives is the recipient of the vitriol that places like Age of ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Jan 31 2011 - 10:50pm - 0 attachments

In this sorry age for Supersymmetry (SUSY) phenomenologists, it is quite easy to step on an aching toe while discussing the results of the Large Hadron Collider experiments, whose results have let these physicists down by excluding the presence of SUSY wh ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 14 2012 - 4:58am - 0 attachments

... a number of behaviors that motivate us towards group conformity. The feeling of wanting friends, of desiring a peer group, and of ... even when we know that the group is wrong. Take the Asch conformity experiments , in which 1950s students were subjected to a mock ...

Article - Michael W. Taft - Mar 14 2012 - 2:00pm - 0 attachments

... seem counter-productive to creative behavior, such as conformity and unquestioning acceptance of authority. On the other hand, these ... of them, no questions asked. But how is this unconditional conformity supposed to leave any room for creativity and innovation? Don't we ...

Article - Andrea Kuszewski - Apr 16 2010 - 9:14pm - 0 attachments