When I was a psychology professor, I always found it difficult to make students understand Freud’s notion of the Oedipus complex, which is a rather counterintuitive notion. Any other teachers of psychology who have similar problems explaining psychoanalytic concepts (or students who struggle to understand them) might want to go to the Wilkinson Sword homepage, […]
Year: 2007
Potato: order of merit
Two well-known researchers of the International Potato Center (CIP) in Lima, Peru were decorated with the Order of Merit of the Diplomatic Service of Peru Jos? Gregorio Paz Sold?n by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru, Dr. Oscar Ma?rtua De Roma?a, on 30 May 2006 during celebrations to mark the National Day of the […]
Trinkaus and Santa, Round 4
Two strangely charming old men arrive each Christmas. One, Santa Claus, is fictional. The other, Professor John Trinkaus, of the Zicklin school of business in New York City, merely seems fictional. This year is Trinkaus’s fourth on the international Christmas scene. His gift to us – all of us – this time is a study […]
Walter Lewin, the physicist who now knows Hell
Walter H. G. Lewin, 71, a physics professor, has long had a cult following at M.I.T. And he has now emerged as an international Internet guru, thanks to the global classroom the institute created to spread knowledge through cyberspace. So says a December 19, 2007 New York Times profile. The Times does not mention one […]