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I suspect most people have had the experience of having to forgive themselves for something bad they did because there was no way to seek forgiveness from the person who was harmed. “I wish I hadn’t shoved that kid off the teeter totter in kindergarten — he got a black eye. I’d apologize now, but [...]
Archive for the ‘Social Sciences’ Category
November 23rd, 2010
June 18th, 2010
Category: Psychology, Sports
Ron Artest, the NBA’s most famous post-Rodman head case, thanks his psychiatrist, who deserved it.
April 8th, 2010
James’ post about the Oxford Circus redesign fails to distinguish three very different ideas about managing movement in urban spaces, though if you follow his links you can parse it out. The culture of traffic engineering is about moving cars (in parts of Europe, bicycles and trams also) quickly, and one of its tropes – [...]
May 29th, 2009
What kind of person seems to insist on torturing other people for political purposes and on blowing the heads of off animals for seemingly no reason at all?
May 9th, 2009
Lenore Skenazy, a writer not previously known to me, has captured my head and my heart. She understands statistics and risk, psychology, perception, and kids. She has her feet on the ground and her eyes open. Money quote from an interview in Slate (h/t Andrew Sullivan): we’ve started to think of our kids as the [...]
September 18th, 2008
Category: Politics and Leadership, Psychology
Hoodathunkit: the trouble with conservatives is that they’re basically a bunch of scaredy-cat chicken cowardly milquetoasts! Dang! Sorta goes with sending other people’s kids to fight one’s wars… Now if we only knew what a conservative is, we could kick some sand in their faces.
July 11th, 2008
Category: Blogging, Evolutionary psychology, History, Humour, Journalism (Online and Otherwise), Literature, MSM (mainstream media), Woolgathering
Addison and Steele as proto-bloggers.
April 18th, 2008
As is well known, the Dutch have an extensive, pervasive, and very green bicycle habit. Big cities have four completely separate surface circulation systems with integrated signals (cars, pedestrians, trams, and bikes); tourists wandering on foot into the bike path get hit or yelled at. Bicycle parking is not a matter of a few posts [...]
March 5th, 2008
Category: Academic Labor Market, Education policy, Evolutionary psychology, Feminism, Policy Analysis, Science and its methods, Women in academia
Two dispatches this week from the “is our girls and women learning?” wars. Elizabeth Weil writes about the nascent movement for single-sex education in public schools, and Christina Hoff Sommers takes on efforts to socially engineer the equal representation of women in science and engineering PhD programs. (Charlotte Allen’s “Women are dumb” doesn’t make the [...]
