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Jerome Kagan featured on Rorotoko

Cambridge favorite Rorotoko, that interviewer of fascinating brainy people, posted a piece on Jerome Kagan today. Kagan has studied child psychology for decades, and has turned his attention to the age-old...

18 Sep 2009

Health Insurance and Competition

Getting to the root of our health-care woes: competition. Will a public option increase competition and lower costs? Are markets really dominated by single players, state by state? FOX has some interesting...

17 Sep 2009

A New Approach to Sports Psychology

Writing for Psychology Today, psychologist Steven Reiss explores how applying the 16 human needs discussed in The Normal Personality allows for different approaches in sports psychology. ~ ~ Peter Boltersdorf,...

Steven Reiss | 16 Sep 2009

Harold Vogel on Universal & Disney’s latest attractions

Entertainment Industry Economist Harold Vogel comments to Reuters on Universal’s new theme park venture — a 20 acre Harry Potter section. In the same article, Draco Malfoy tells us that it...

16 Sep 2009

What is Socialism in 2009?

The New York Times Room for Debate blog asks this very question. And our own Terence Ball responds with a surprising fact: the writer of the Pledge of Allegiance was Socialist. Read it >> Read More ?

15 Sep 2009

Hetherington & Weiler on The State of Things

Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler, authors of Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics were interviewed for WUNC’s The State of Things. From WUNC: Is it more important for your...

14 Sep 2009

Therapy After Terror

The New York Times today interviewed psychologists and therapists about the jarring changes in their daily practices in the wake of the September 11 attacks. “I always try to leave some space in my practice...

11 Sep 2009

American Political Science Association 2009

APSA. When I first heard talk of it, I was amazed at how those four little letters could make even the most seasoned marketing associates quiver in fear. “How hard could it be?” I thought. “It’s...

10 Sep 2009

Judson’s Round-up of Darwin Goodness

Lots of Darwin this year, and Olivia Judson has the round-up, including the new movie. Read More ?

9 Sep 2009

There IS Precedent for a torture investigation

Writing for FindLaw, Stephen Sheppard, author of I Do Solemnly Swear: The Moral Obligations of Legal Officials, demonstrates that we have plenty of historical precedent for investigating former administrations...

Stephen Sheppard | 9 Sep 2009

Why the rising tuition costs?

The New York Times spoke with Burton Weisbrod, author of Mission and Money on rising tuition costs. “Am I, for example, as a tenured professor or any tenured faculty member necessarily, or even probably,...

8 Sep 2009

The Joy of Reading on the Train

The only thing I miss now that I’m biking to work: reading on the train. In other words, I’ve lost close to an hour of reading time per day! The New York Times interviewed a slew of people...

4 Sep 2009