“.. or does the theory really have legs?” is the title of a critical editorial in JMCP last month. Although I will co-author a forthcoming paper on allergic rhinitis being a risk factor for later asthma, the situation is far from being understood. “March” implies a command for all to go into one direction which is arguable a poor analogy (Show me more…)
This may be obvious, at least if you have read Daniel Gilbert
In 2002, Jane Ebert and I discovered that people are generally happier with decisions when they can’t undo them. When subjects in our experiments were able to undo their decisions they tended to consider both the positive and negative features of the decisions they had made, but when they couldn’t undo their decisions they tended to concentrate on the good features and ignore the bad.
When reading my own writings a second time, I always discover typing errors, crude sentences, and other poor habits – blogs as snapshots of less happier minds?
I started with the Khoury manuscript, replaced it with the Terwillinger book and are finally using this one.
It costs about 63$.
Yahoo news has the story (and Spiegel a video) of an Australian girl who
spontaneously switched blood groups and adopted her donor’s immune system following a liver transplant in the first known case of its type, doctors treating her said Thursday.
Unfortunately (Show me more…)
Here comes the second comment on the Annual Edge Question 2008.
When thinking changes your mind, that’s philosophy.
When God changes your mind, that’s theology.
When facts change your mind, that’s science.
What have you changed your mind about? Why?
I would have done it in a different way: (Show me more…)
I have been asked to give an evening lecture about science and religion here at a local congregation. At the first moment, I did not want to do that, but finally promised to take up this challenge – there are so many heroes where I could get some inspiration. I remember having read a wonderful paper by an author but could not recall his name. (Show me more…)