Prime minister Margaret Thatcher‘s masterful way of handling interruptions inspired one psychologist to study, intently, how she did it. As this scholar communicated his findings to the public, other scholars, with different views, interrupted him – and he them. Geoffrey Beattie [pictured here] is now a professorial research fellow of the Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of Manchester. […]
Tag: speech
“Vaginas should smell like vaginas”
Kate Clancy, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, writes (in her blog Context and Variation) about her Ig Nobel experience: Vaginas should smell like vaginas, not flowers: my 24/7 Ig Nobel talk By Kate Clancy Last Thursday, a number of dreams I didn’t even know I had were fulfilled: talking about vaginas […]
Freely paid speech
The doctor cannot be as mercenarily driven as he appears in this Boston Globe article — can he? The article says: Doctor quits Brigham to speak for pay Boston physician Lawrence M. DuBuske was given a choice: Either stop moonlighting as a paid speaker for pharmaceutical companies or quit his job at a top Harvard […]
Franceso d’Errico, chatty and not
Franceso d’Errico of the University of Bordeaux said that yes, Neanderthals wore makeup and liked to chat. He said it to ABC News. But Franceso d’Errico of Yale University made no public statement on the question. (Thanks to investigator Scott Langill for bringing this to our attention.)