Today’s news from the Trojan football website gives me a great opportunity to combine two topics I really love–football and psychology. In a video posted on the site, USC football players are hypnotized by stage hypnotist Ricky Kalmon. With Kalmon’s Read more…
A comment by one of my students in response to a previous post sent me back to the literature to look at work by James Pennebaker of the University of Texas, Austin. Pennebaker has written extensively on the health benefits Read more…
The Cal Poly Public Affairs office very kindly issued a press release about my finalist status in the 2007 Weblog Awards. Thanks, Jo Ann!
Today is the one-year anniversary of the start of my Jenny Craig diet. I really hadn’t intended to sign up–although I needed it–but did so to support my daughter Karen’s post shot-putting retrofit. After a stellar ten-year career in track Read more…
Tomorrow, at least in California and a lot of other places shown in blue, we will move our clocks back an hour. Daylight savings was introduced in the United States as an energy-saving method. This change is easier for Read more…