Just as the Olympics games 2008 is finally put to rest, 2012 rears its ugly head and this time it’s Britain’s turn to pick up the tab. Unfortunately for Britain the standard set by China was not only extraordinarily high but also caused a severe blow to the ego to those countries who doubted China. […]
India’s Aravind Adiga wins Man Booker
Beating predictions by bookies and others, debutant Indian novelist 33-year-old Aravind Adiga”s book "The White Tiger" was on Wednesday declared the winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction for 2008. Adiga beat favourite Sebastian Barry to take the 50,000 pound (USD 47,000) prize. The other authors in the shortlist […]
Navigating Through the Invisibility of the Stricken
Remember how so few Americans responded to New Orleans’ residents in their honest-to-gosh hours (and hours, and hours) of need after Katrina? Well, that look-the-other-way behavior haunts this nation still as Americans continue to lose their houses and their jobs. What, you don’t believe in the concept of victimhood? Most of us no longer do […]
Is ADHD really just “Creative Kids Syndrome?”
NPR’s Morning Edition had <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94727139">a story</a> yesterday about Pacific Lutheran University student Emily Algire. Emily was diagnosed with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention-Deficit_Hyperactivity_Disorder">ADHD</a> as a child, much to the confusion of her very organized mother. This reminded me of <a href="http://theaestheticelevator.com/2008/08/12/does-public-education-kill-creativity/">my August post</a> where Sir Ken Robinson cites Gillian Lynn, who choreographed Cats and Phantom of the […]
SCOPE OF PSYCHOLOGY
SCOPE OF PSYCHOLOGY As we have already observed, recent writers commonly confine the term psychology to the science of the phenomena of the mind. Thus William James, probably the psychologist of widest influence during the past twenty years, defines psychology as "The Science of Mental Life, both of its phenomena and their conditions". ("Principles", I, […]
Raw Deals For Ghanaians
Business has been slow for many Ghanain traders who blame the situabtion on not only the influx of cheap Chinese products but also insufficient legal protection and corruption. The concern in Ghana about the Chinese invasion of the economy was illustrated with the convening ofa roundtable discussion in November last year, which looked at ways to protect […]
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