http://leapgap.com When statistical significance is insufficient. Thu, 01 May 2008 18:10:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From my inbox: Subject: Dissertations Dear Dr. Prada and Dr. Smith, Signed, sealed, delivered! You are now "official" and can use your title. You should receive your diploma at graduation. Congratulations!! Debbie _________________________ Deborah A. Boehm-Davis Professor and Chair, Psychology Department George Mason University MSN 3F5, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 phone: 703-993-8735   fax: 703-993-1359 http://archlab.gmu.edu/people/dbdavis http://leapgap.com/2008/05/01/congraduations/ Jon Postel, the late computer science guru pictured above, is widely credited with the following dictum: Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others. This has come to be known as Postel's Law, and it's not explicitly about how people should treat one another. Instead, Dr. Postel ... http://leapgap.com/2008/03/19/how-compassion-saved-and-broke-the-internet/   A look inside the mind of a future Dr. Prada! http://leapgap.com/2008/02/25/wow/ Looks like a lot of us are experiencing big life events. Congratulations! http://leapgap.com/2008/01/31/congrats-people/ Happened to be surfing the web and ran across the Prayer of Maimonides, which is sometimes recited by medical students instead of the Hippocratic Oath. It's a beautiful prayer, really. But one thing struck me about "Maimonides'" view of older colleagues: Imbue my soul with gentleness and calmness when older colleagues, ... http://leapgap.com/2008/01/06/humility-and-not-humility-in-medicine/ In 2003, Congress passed a historic law known as the CAN-SPAM Act. Ostensibly an attempt to end unsolicited commercial e-mails, it was actually intended to weaken consumer protections against spam that were under consideration in the State of California. Under earlier state laws, consumers could sue spammers ... http://leapgap.com/2007/10/24/the-legalization-of-spam/ While working on my dissertation, AdSense thought my needs might be met by a certain company that specializes in writing term papers for lazy students. "No plagiarism" and "EXPERT writers" the ad promised. How could I not investigate further? Here's a screenshot. http://leapgap.com/2007/09/29/dissertations-1275-each/ Here's a story from '89 about one of the first public demonstrations of the x.400 e-mail standard, which helped e-mail move across platforms. As with all old tech articles, the beauty is in the enthusiastic descriptions of what the new technology will bring. [I]n a series of tests between Hughes ... http://leapgap.com/2007/07/23/e-mail-but-in-reality-can-it-really-work/ Being from an east coast psychology program with deep--no, really deep--ties to Washington, D.C., I'm always saddened to see otherwise strong human factors students complaining about having to take internships at less-than-stellar Beltway companies. No, people. Go west. http://leapgap.com/2007/07/10/go-west-young-psychologists/ The Union of Concerned Scientists is holding its annual editorial cartoon contest. This year's topic: Politics and Science. http://leapgap.com/2007/07/03/ucs-science-idol/