Immediately after Sarah Palin’s surprise emergence as the Republican vice-presidential candidate, comparisons to Dan Quayle began. What interests me as a memory researcher is how soon people began to recall the famous exchange during the 1988 vice-presidential debate between Senator Quayle and Senator Bentsen, the Democratic candidate. Bentsen’s rebuke of Quayle has become more [...]
This is a good time to reflect a bit on the Olympics
What do you think? Who is likely to experience more regret? Someone who won the silver medal in the Olympics, or someone who won the bronze medal in the Olympics?
In one study Bob Willingham took thousands of photographs of athletes in the [...]
Okay. So, it seems that I’ve come down with the flu. Brandon has been sick since last Wednesday, sweating and shivering and coughing, and by Friday evening, it had felled me too. Unless you count scrambled eggs and a half-hearted batch of tomato sauce, we have cooked absolutely nothing in the [...]
Although many women find bald men to be sexy, aplocia areata can be emotionally devastating to a man or woman. Mind-body medicine may be "help-on-the-way" for this type of baldness and hair loss. In 1962, my father lost all of his hair in few weeks. The diagnosis was alopecia areata, which now considered an auto-immune [...]
I am wandering France today.
Pulling out my old stacks of Art & Decoration, Marie
Claire and Côté Sud magazines, dreaming.
I’ve decided I am going to add a rose tree to my
landscaping next year.
Admiring the architectural details of this Paris apartment. The window looks as if it has an ornate frame around it. If [...]
