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Photo of Hedy at the Sawdust Festival
Folks, I had an opportunity to spend time this week with our esteemed colleague, Hedy Williamson. Below is a photo of me, Hedy and Lisa standing in front of some art done by a friend of hers (if you can believe it, I forgot to get a photo of Hedy … Continue reading
August’s reading assignment
Hi everyone, Thanks for participating in the class! The next reading assignment is: – Reading assignment for August phone callRead in your Hastie & Dawes textbook – All of six sections of the appendix (A.1 – A.6) Please e-mail me with any question… Continue reading
Thought you’d be interested in this
Dear Friends -Attached is a pdf of a paper about…paper! I wanted to pass this along to my fellow bibliophiles. You may want to print it out instead of reading it on your computer – you’ll understand when you read it! Looking forward to our call…. Continue reading
Herodotus update
Hi y’all,Just a reminder about our call tonight:8pm EST1 866 628 8620 112431# subsequent conference call dates:Book 7 Mon Aug 11Books 8 & 9 Mon Sept 8 Looking forward to our discussion on Book 7 and Marathon,Andre Continue reading
Text Book vs trade book
Thought I would throw my feedback in via e-mail since the conversation is continuing… I like the challenge of the text book, but it has reminded that it is possible to take English words that I understand on their own but when put together in a … Continue reading
Behavioral Psychology and Economics June 2008 – audio recording
Here’s the audio recording for Behavioral Psychology and Economics June 2008 call. Listen online or download the mp3 file and listen to it as a podcast on your ipod. Download Behavioral-June2008-Call2.mp3 Continue reading
Question for Eric Gold on “trust” as an intuition
On the first call we learned of a number of ways in which we are wired to make choices which might not be rational. As Eric was conducting the repeated coin toss experiment on today’s call, the thought crossed my mind (perhaps because I could not … Continue reading
perception behavior
Here is a really interesting presentation from TED (this is *not* the brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor) which some of you might have already seen. I don’t’ want to say too much upfront – the video (which is short) should do the work. http://trans… Continue reading
Reading assignment correction – Chapter *8* not 6
Folks, The reading assignment contained a typo. Here it is again: – Chapter 1 – Chapter 5 – Chapter 8 sections 8.1 and 8.2 Thank you! Phil Continue reading
Good news about Ruth Coleman, member of our reading group
Folks, See the SF Chronicle article below on fellow member Ruth Coleman – the Chronicle says she played an important role in reversing the Governor’s decision to close parks. “According to a source close to the governor’s office, three factors wer… Continue reading