Random links
- These marchers deserve credit: Dalhousie course teaches students how to stage a peaceful demonstration
- Here's an example of one course you can take at a Canadian university: "Over banging drums, the students chanted, 'The poor can’t eat profit.' ... This was no ordinary protest. These students were rallying for marks. They’re taking a new course at Dalhousie University that teaches them how to be activists. Fifteen per cent of their final mark depended upon the organization and execution of the rally." No doubt students aren't in any way required to advocate any sort of particular political stance... right...
- It's All About Me: But Is Narcissism A Disorder?
- Is narcissism the new (or perhaps old) normal? "The American Psychiatric Association recently announced it's considering lifting narcissistic personality disorder — along with four other personality disorders — from its highly influential Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders."
- An evaluation of airport x-ray backscatter units based on image characteristics
- The Israeli's mentioned before that this sort of approach to airport security had holes. Here now is a little more of the science as to why.
- Upper-Class People Have Trouble Recognizing Others' Emotions
- "A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds surprisingly, that lower-class people are better at reading the emotions of others."