So, dear readers, how did I defend myself to my possibly-future boss, Billie Dawn, at an Au Bon Pain café in the Back Bay area of Boston, where we were both there attending the APA convention? Recall she asked with no small degree of incredulity, You’re a media psychologist — how can you [...]
We’ve been arguing that "thinkering" is the way many creative people work. Thinkering, you may recall, is the conceptual thinking that goes along with tinkering - making things with your hands. That’s what Einstein, Edison, Faraday and Maxwell did. Steven Chu understands this; Exxon-Mobil doesn’t.
Steven Chu, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in [...]
Every student learns the definition of what is termed, “Bipolar Disorder,” as the next disorder after depression and manic moods in a typical curriculum course. It seems logical that one mood disorder would simply relate to another mutant disorder with similar behaviors, similar to the way we classify animals. If you go through a traditional [...]
Ten days ago, as I noted in my last blog, I returned from the APA convention I attended in Boston. (In the blogosphere game, life is measured in blogs, not hours, minutes or days — at least for me, now that I’ve stopped regular university teaching and consult rather than have a job which structures [...]
As the Olympics have drawn to a close, we might well ask with Juliet, “What’s in a name?” What people will likely remember from the Olympics are two singular athletic performances, that of swimmer Michael Phelps and runner Usain Bolt. So, did Usain Bolt have a Phelpsian Olympics or Phelps a Boltian? The potential words [...]
