Feel the sound

Hearing with your skin. How cool is this?

http://s.nyt.com/u/CuO

Insign in Action or Attack of the Banana Pecking Pigeon

Thanks to Dan for finding this video for us. Click here to see the depths of pigeon creativity.

Which type of conditioning is this?

Who's conditioning who?

I think Bella and Des do this to me all the time. Thanks to Lizzie Tripolitis for the submission.

Backmasking and Perceptual Set

Here's the link to the site we looked at today in case there was a song you wanted to check out.
http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking.htm

However, I'd advise looking into the notion of Perceptual Set before you put much credence to these lyrics.

Reading . . . virtual reality for your brain.

Ever want to play quidditch? Walk across the moors to find Heathcliff? Or throw the one ring into the fires of Mordor? Well, you may have come closer than you think. A new study in the June 2009 edition of Psychological Science uses neuroimaging to show that brain regions simulate the activities we read about.

You can find out more information by listening to a 60second podcast by Scientific America or checking out the actual article in Psychological Science

Oh, and yes, this is a picture of people trying to play quidditch. You've got to check out the ehow article. I'd stick to reading.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2071532_play-quidditch.html

Gates-gate and the psychology of racism

Oh Gates and Crowley, you've done us one favor . . . you've distracted the media from its non-stop coverage of Michael Jackson. When even NPR is refusing to carry the congressional debates over health care legislation to talk about an arrest, you know the nation needs to talk about race. Thankfully Psychology Today had put together a very nice article about the explicit and implicit racism. Before you say race isn't an issue today, why don't you check out Paul's article. It might make you rethink your assumptions about yourself and begin some truly honest discussions about prejudice.

Where Bias Begins: The Truth About Stereotypes

Biological Differences between the sexes?

Click here to take the Sex ID quiz from the BBC. Post your resuts in our comments page. The study is still gathering data, but the intial findings were published in the April 2007 issue of the Archives of Sexual Behavior. We'll discuss your findings in class on Tuesday.

21st Century Skills

While we may talk about the AP test a lot, our class focuses mostly on the skills I feel will make you stronger students and employees when you leave WHS. Below is a video the Social Studies Deptarment put together to help define 21st Century Skills. What you might find most interesting is comparing what employers want from their employees to what you've gotten out of the AP program at WHS.