December 2009
7 posts
Email
It looks like my university email is down, conveniently in the middle of finals week. If you have anything to send me (like a paper, for instance) send it to rlridenour@gmail.com, please.
Change Blindness →
A great experiment showing how little we tend to perceive.
Classes on Monday
I’m in Louisiana for the funeral of a child of one of my soldiers. So, Critical Thinking class will not meet on Monday. Read chapter 25, and pay close attention to the section on Cognitive Mechanisms. As you read the chapter, think about the reasoning problems that we have discussed this semester and how they make it very difficult to solve the problem of stereotyping and prejudice.
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Readability →
Highly recommended if you read many articles on the internet.
“Weaseling out of things is what separates us from the animals. Well, except the...”
– Homer Simpson