I love Segways. In June I used one in San Francisco and I think it is an amazing extension of your body. Within five minutes riding feels completely natural. All the movements are intuitive, it is a brilliant piece of design. I am at Learning 2008 in Orlando. I have been thoroughly impressed by how … Continue reading Gaining authority by riding a Segway
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Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
Lauren Slater's Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century is a marvellous book for anybody trying to understand human behaviour. Her perspective is that these famous experiments (e.g. Milgram's experiment on authority) "ultimately concern themselves not with the value-free questions we traditionally associate with 'science', [...] but with the kinds of ethical … Continue reading Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century