My former classmate at the University of Hartford, Tonya Jacobs, had an article described in the Huffington Post titled Mindfulness Meditation Could Lower Levels Of Cortisol, The Stress Hormone. It described her study which originally appeared in the Journal of Health Psychology. It talks about how a study was conducted of those who participated in aContinue reading “An In Depth Look at a Mindfulness and Stress Study”
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Draft Logic
ESPN & the NFL Network have come out with blanket coverage of the National Football League draft which is the largest gym class method of picking teams (I was never picked first even for dodge ball). A lot of intelligence is expended on these picks as can be seen in this famous exchange between ESPN’sContinue reading “Draft Logic”
Casey Anthony’s “CSI” Effect
The shock waves still continue to emanate from the Casey Anthony trial where the young Florida mother was acquitted of murdering her 3 year old daughter but convicted of the lesser offenses of lying to police. Rendering a verdict in court cases is much like testing hypotheses in statistics. The researcher (or the jury) makesContinue reading “Casey Anthony’s “CSI” Effect”
ADHD, Genetics, and Causality: A Chicken-Egg Problem
The conventional view of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder has been to be caused by heredity, brain injury, or other birth exposures (see the CDC’s fact page on ADHD for a full list and a description of the disorder). Canadian physician Gabor Mate argues that it and a variety of other mental problems in childhood andContinue reading “ADHD, Genetics, and Causality: A Chicken-Egg Problem”
States as Laboratories and Lavatories of Democracy
As the standoff at the State Capitol in Wisconsin continues over public employees and teachers to continue to have the right to collective bargaining with no end in sight a similar bill in the Midwestern state of Ohio passed it’s State Senate this week by a vote of 17-16 with protesting crowd sizes maxing outContinue reading “States as Laboratories and Lavatories of Democracy”