Showing posts with label Cornell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cornell. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

DrTom's Youtube videos

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The following DrTom videos are available on Youtube: 1.  Lecture to the Cornell Association of Professors Emeriti, given Dec 2011, titled...
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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Is the behavior of sports fans explainable?

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 (Aaron Rodgers, quarterback of the world champion Green Bay Packers.  Hang out with this guy to really enhance your status.) I warned ...
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

The Odd Couple goes West

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(DrTom and Paul Sherman could have played the parts of Oscar and Felix naturally, and did.) Paul Sherman and I were colleagues at Corne...
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Sunday, October 17, 2010

The stress that university students endure

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(University students are under stress that is more or less constant, but so much of it is self-imposed.) The pattern was the same nearl...
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

DrTom gets an official warning from Facebook

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(I thought the fine print on this warning would thank me for my contributions to Facebook, but no such luck.) Today I opened my email t...
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Monday, May 17, 2010

On Roger Maris, baseball, and heroes

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(There are lots of memories associated with this baseball card.) I was absolutely consumed by baseball until I was about 13.  I played ...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

The phoebe and the porch light

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 (An Eastern Phoebe with an insect.  Is it the same bird nesting on my porch light year after year?) Each year in late March, Eastern P...
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Saturday, March 6, 2010

The symbolic chairs of Cornell and Costa Rica

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(A Costa Rican rocker on the left and a Cornell chair on the right.  Which one holds the better memories?) I returned h...
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Saturday, December 5, 2009

The tale of the look-alike shoes

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(Would you lower your young son into one of these to retrieve an expensive pair of shoes?) In 1985, I took a bunch of grad students fro...
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

What in the world is Danby?

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(Make sure you come with a full gas tank.  We have no gas station.) The late Carl Sagan, who was a professor at Cornell, once said th...
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

The big sting

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(My friend Ida Lydiya, a Latvian immigrant who allows me to cut firewood on her property.) For nearly 30 years I taught a course titled In...
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