When I taught my first college class (I was 23 and a grad student at UCLA teaching at Pasadena City College), I would have LOVED to have what is now called an Instructor’s Manual to help prepare my courses. I’m not sure when such things became available. My first real experience Read more…
For those of us on quarter system, school seems pretty far away, even as August 1 approaches. For those of you on semesters, however, school is just around the corner. I was pleased to see that my Instructors’ Resources for Discovering Biological Psychology 2e were up and running on the Read more…
Neuroscientists have known for some time that we do not have a “happy” center or an “anger” center of the brain, but rather these emotional states have unique patterns of activity. Now it appears that researchers can identify a person’s mental state rather accurately by comparing his/her patterns of activity Read more…
As the second anniversary of my weightloss maintenance on Jenny Craig approaches, it seems only fitting to consider the state of overweight and obesity in the United States. The news is not encouraging. New data from Trust for America’s Health says that Americans are continuing to get fatter. The Trust Read more…
No offense to single mothers out there, who are doing their best to raise good kids, but dads do provide input that moms and other female relatives cannot. I have to admit that many of the major highlights of my children’s lives were not the day-to-day things that I did, but Read more…