Thinking about the future, and, more importantly, how to think about the future.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Surreal Saturday: Molten Iron Throwing (YouTube via Neatorama)
Neatorama featured this video earlier this week of Chinese farmers who have -- for hundreds of years, apparently -- thrown molten iron against a big wall in lieu of launching fireworks for the lantern festival.
I hear that grad students can do that instead of a thesis next year at Mercyhurst. Is that true? Do you issue them the coats and hats?
Have you heard of these? Reportedly very interesting.
"Phantom Flashbulbs: False Recollections of Hearing the News About Challenger," by U Neisser and N Harsch, in "Affect and Accuracy of Recall Studies of 'Flashbulb' Memories," edited by E Winograd and U Neisser (NY: Cambridge Univ Press, 1992)
"On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not," by Robert Burton.
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I hear that grad students can do that instead of a thesis next year at Mercyhurst. Is that true? Do you issue them the coats and hats?
ReplyDeleteHave you heard of these? Reportedly very interesting.
"Phantom Flashbulbs: False Recollections of Hearing the News About Challenger," by U Neisser and N Harsch, in "Affect and Accuracy of Recall Studies of 'Flashbulb' Memories," edited by E Winograd and U Neisser (NY: Cambridge Univ Press, 1992)
"On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not," by Robert Burton.