Our High School Class just had their 40th reunion, someone dug out this picture from long before. Can you tell which one is me?
“I turn 40 this month, and let’s just say I’m not looking forward to this new juncture, which promises to bring everything from aching joints to more wrinkles to further bouts of forgetfulness. I’ve been told that at 40, I can no longer wear the sorts of styles my daughter does. It’s just too weird. Acting impulsively doesn’t fly either — people are quick to tell you to “act your age. ” So what do I have to look forward to? Wisdom.”
“If the gulf between neuroscience and education theory was unbridgeable, it may not be for much longer
EDUCATION is the “inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent” according to the late economist John Maynard Keynes. In recent years, a wide range of research has been used to inform education policy and practice. Arguably it could go further. In this issue we explore a few of the brain-boosting techniques currently under study, from meditation to music. Some of them could be useful as educational tools (see “Mental muscle: six ways to boost your brain”).”
“Subjects varied their estimates of the calorie content of a food depending on the assumed negative or positive healthful qualities of the food item they had previously been shown–with weird consequences. Cynthia Graber reports”
“A Kansas University professor of psychology has bequeathed $2.2 million to his old department to help improve the training of graduate and undergraduate students. Jack Brehm, who died last year, taught full time at KU from 1975 until his retirement in 1997. He left the bulk of his estate to the KU Endowment Association for the psychology department.”
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kyoungbe · October 3, 2010 at 9:54 am
Interesting article about the order in which you eat your food influences how many calories you think they have. it makes sense that people might equate chocolate cake and a cheese steak when it comes to calories, being that they are both “bad” foods. i can see how people would also want to assume a cheese steak had a significant number of more calories than a salad, when shown a salad first.
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