I have included documents, PowerPoints and websites I find interesting and useful.
Miscellaneous good stuff...
Advice to graduates
Cognitive biases
Statistics for psychology
AI
Spinrad blog on education, economics, and politics. Spinrad music.
Try out different careers
Psychology
Crash course psychology videos
Brainfacts site debunks neurological myths
What we project onto dogs
Psychguide
APA sources
Effective Motivation
VIA Character survey
Introverts make good entrepreneurs
Men's happiness
Happiness in marriage
Genetics and happiness
How we fall in love.
Chimps and personality
Beards and male attractiveness
The psychology of boredom.
Child development and morality
Childhood in an anxious age
Traditionalist versus progressive education
NDEs
Biological basis of psychiatric disorders
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and medical problems
Sometimes brain malfunctions make people not responsible for their actions
Jumper cables for the mind
Why our brains push us toward unexpected affection and rewards
How complicated is the brain?
Male/female brain?
False memories
Attachment theory and reproductive strategies
What if robots acted like people?
Television watching leads to early death
Multitasking slows down and may damage the brain
Deep thought requires quiet.
Women's experience with the trappings of power.
Mischel's famous marshmallow study updated: environment also important in ability to delay gratification; learning how to improve self-control
Wakeful rest boosts memory
Sleep therapy helps depression and is necessary for brain cleanup
Creative focus
PE is necessary for focus
ESP and psychics are fraudulent
Talent v. practice
Body language
Perception: scents
Music and the brain
Brain training
Lucid dreaming
Are dreams meaningful?
Homework has little value K-12
The case for delayed adulthood
How the female sex drive works
How released prison inmates reenter a changed world
Some college women abandon relationships for career and casual sex
Infidelity and genetic predisposition
Your implicit attitudes measured here.
ADHD
ECT (shock) therapy works for Depression
When your child is a psychopath
Psychopathology of Charles Manson
Paying meth addicts: contingency therapy
Psychiatry from psychoanalysis to drug therapies
Criticism of AA and alcohol treatment
A comedian jokes about her mental illness.
Economics
Buy or rent a house?
How to trick people into saving money
Growth
Socialists need growth too
Supply and demand in the Bay Area and illustrated with taxis
Money issues for teens
Stock market advice
Krugman and politics
Alternatives to the nuclear family
Keynes v Friedman
Becker-Posner economics blog
Faber doomsday economic charts
Reading and working with paper instead of computer screens...
The dollar goes down...
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis podcasts on difficult economic subjects
The poor hit hardest by 2013 tax increases
How the Great Recession reshaped the economy
Criticism of American capitalism as crash-prone
Outsourcing: China v Mexico
Economics of recycling
Why there are globally less people living in extreme poverty and how to do more of that
Automation and jobs
Income inequality in NYC.
Income inequality is of genetic origin
Income inequality: Fed slide show
Income inequality and education
Inequality will worsen. Inequality is temporary. Marxists miss the point of existence Authortarian socialism and poverty
Inequality and the new aristocracy
Jobs will cure income inequality and the imbalance between capital and labor.
There is LESS income inequality worldwide
Inequality speech by the Fed (Mary Daly)
The controversy over Gravity and paying everyone the same
Is the middle class doomed?
Why corporations should be taxed LESS. Companies moving abroad, tax inversions.
Minimum wage
Europe's Demographic Crisis
China's demographic crisis
US goes from being an oil importer to being an oil exporter.
Revenue-neutral carbon tax based on Canadian example and here
Nash obit (game theory)
What a consumer gets out of online dating
A house does not give much utility (satisfaction)
Computer trading and the making of a new stock exchange
How the music business works on Broadway and why it is worse and worse
Was the industrial revolution a self-control revolution?
Consumers less healthy because of high deductibles in health insurance
Brexit
Unconventional Federal Reserve policy
Rich in the Bay Area
Immigration review
History
Historiography of George Washington
American Revolution novels --reviews
The persuading power of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Cities v countryside
Interactive map of Europe 1200-present
Napoleon
Dreyfus
Lincoln and Radical Republicans
New York City draft riots
Robert E. Lee
Labor, socialism and Marx
Operation Torch
Forgotten victory in India in WW II
Hanson's WWII
How well did the Allies treat the losers of WWII and were they hypocrites?
The demonic Adolf Eichmann
Hitler's secret (Holocaust) archives.
Stalin
George Marshall
Tales of starvation in North Korea
Hamas textbooks focus on hate
Amy Tan reflects on China
The modern city
New York City sophisticates at Penn Station in the 1930s
Earl Warren and Eisenhower
What American life was like in the 1950s in doc below.
Medicine and insurance
Cognitive biases
Statistics for psychology
AI
Spinrad blog on education, economics, and politics. Spinrad music.
Try out different careers
Psychology
Crash course psychology videos
Brainfacts site debunks neurological myths
What we project onto dogs
Psychguide
APA sources
Effective Motivation
VIA Character survey
Introverts make good entrepreneurs
Men's happiness
Happiness in marriage
Genetics and happiness
How we fall in love.
Chimps and personality
Beards and male attractiveness
The psychology of boredom.
Child development and morality
Childhood in an anxious age
Traditionalist versus progressive education
NDEs
Biological basis of psychiatric disorders
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and medical problems
Sometimes brain malfunctions make people not responsible for their actions
Jumper cables for the mind
Why our brains push us toward unexpected affection and rewards
How complicated is the brain?
Male/female brain?
False memories
Attachment theory and reproductive strategies
What if robots acted like people?
Television watching leads to early death
Multitasking slows down and may damage the brain
Deep thought requires quiet.
Women's experience with the trappings of power.
Mischel's famous marshmallow study updated: environment also important in ability to delay gratification; learning how to improve self-control
Wakeful rest boosts memory
Sleep therapy helps depression and is necessary for brain cleanup
Creative focus
PE is necessary for focus
ESP and psychics are fraudulent
Talent v. practice
Body language
Perception: scents
Music and the brain
Brain training
Lucid dreaming
Are dreams meaningful?
Homework has little value K-12
The case for delayed adulthood
How the female sex drive works
How released prison inmates reenter a changed world
Some college women abandon relationships for career and casual sex
Infidelity and genetic predisposition
Your implicit attitudes measured here.
ADHD
ECT (shock) therapy works for Depression
When your child is a psychopath
Psychopathology of Charles Manson
Paying meth addicts: contingency therapy
Psychiatry from psychoanalysis to drug therapies
Criticism of AA and alcohol treatment
A comedian jokes about her mental illness.
Economics
Buy or rent a house?
How to trick people into saving money
Growth
Socialists need growth too
Supply and demand in the Bay Area and illustrated with taxis
Money issues for teens
Stock market advice
Krugman and politics
Alternatives to the nuclear family
Keynes v Friedman
Becker-Posner economics blog
Faber doomsday economic charts
Reading and working with paper instead of computer screens...
The dollar goes down...
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis podcasts on difficult economic subjects
The poor hit hardest by 2013 tax increases
How the Great Recession reshaped the economy
Criticism of American capitalism as crash-prone
Outsourcing: China v Mexico
Economics of recycling
Why there are globally less people living in extreme poverty and how to do more of that
Automation and jobs
Income inequality in NYC.
Income inequality is of genetic origin
Income inequality: Fed slide show
Income inequality and education
Inequality will worsen. Inequality is temporary. Marxists miss the point of existence Authortarian socialism and poverty
Inequality and the new aristocracy
Jobs will cure income inequality and the imbalance between capital and labor.
There is LESS income inequality worldwide
Inequality speech by the Fed (Mary Daly)
The controversy over Gravity and paying everyone the same
Is the middle class doomed?
Why corporations should be taxed LESS. Companies moving abroad, tax inversions.
Minimum wage
Europe's Demographic Crisis
China's demographic crisis
US goes from being an oil importer to being an oil exporter.
Revenue-neutral carbon tax based on Canadian example and here
Nash obit (game theory)
What a consumer gets out of online dating
A house does not give much utility (satisfaction)
Computer trading and the making of a new stock exchange
How the music business works on Broadway and why it is worse and worse
Was the industrial revolution a self-control revolution?
Consumers less healthy because of high deductibles in health insurance
Brexit
Unconventional Federal Reserve policy
Rich in the Bay Area
Immigration review
History
Historiography of George Washington
American Revolution novels --reviews
The persuading power of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Cities v countryside
Interactive map of Europe 1200-present
Napoleon
Dreyfus
Lincoln and Radical Republicans
New York City draft riots
Robert E. Lee
Labor, socialism and Marx
Operation Torch
Forgotten victory in India in WW II
Hanson's WWII
How well did the Allies treat the losers of WWII and were they hypocrites?
The demonic Adolf Eichmann
Hitler's secret (Holocaust) archives.
Stalin
George Marshall
Tales of starvation in North Korea
Hamas textbooks focus on hate
Amy Tan reflects on China
The modern city
New York City sophisticates at Penn Station in the 1930s
Earl Warren and Eisenhower
What American life was like in the 1950s in doc below.
Medicine and insurance
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WWII technology that won the war
Roosevelt and the Holocaust
Germany rises again
North Korean prison camp
POWs in North Vietnam
Dalai Lama and China
History of the Internet
Timeline of computer history
Kennedy
Historiography of Kennedy
Admirers try to resurrect Lyndon Johnson's legacy
Pictures 15-26 of aviation
Rock 'n roll over time
Black Panthers revisited
Ethnicity and police shootings
Disappearance of marriage
Roosevelt and the Holocaust
Germany rises again
North Korean prison camp
POWs in North Vietnam
Dalai Lama and China
History of the Internet
Timeline of computer history
Kennedy
Historiography of Kennedy
Admirers try to resurrect Lyndon Johnson's legacy
Pictures 15-26 of aviation
Rock 'n roll over time
Black Panthers revisited
Ethnicity and police shootings
Disappearance of marriage
Super Spinrad
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