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Insecure Attachment & Obesity, Pre-K & Entitlement, and Classrooms & Digital Tech—Imprisoning Minds In the Object World (part II of II)

As promised at the end of part I, I’ll start part II by talking about the following three articles. In my opinion, when taken together, the following three articles paint a picture of minds imprisoned within the middle object brain (a topic I introduced in part I). Here are the three articles: How Parenting Styles […]

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Insecure Attachment & Obesity, Pre-K & Entitlement, and Classrooms & Digital Tech—Imprisoning Minds In the Object World (part I)

Psychology undergraduate students just starting out often hear about neuroscientist Paul MacLean’s model known as the triune brain. Using evolution as a backdrop, MacLean’s model attempts to explain how the human brain developed. Although MacLean started sketching out his model in the 1960s, he worked in ernest to popularize his model with the 1990 release […]

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FHL Foundation Makes Winter 2014 Grants

On February 4th, 2014, the board of the FHL Foundation voted to approve the following grants: Cochitit Elementary School (School Program Development) – $10,000 Geneva Glen Camp (Camperhip Program) – $10,000 Pilots & Paws (Animal Rescue Efforts) – $20,000 Cambridge Health Alliance (Study: Stress and the Maternal Brain – Dr. Karlen Lyons-Ruth) – $5,000 Taos […]

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Truer Words: Philanthropists As Bridges Between Science and the Public

I recently finished reading a 1998 edited volume entitled A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science edited by Noretta Koertge. Each section of this book has a bit of introductory text. I’m assuming that these section introductions were written by Koertge but I’m not certain. For the purpose of this post I’ll […]

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COMMENT: Being “Forced to Care” About Social Constructivism

In my blog post early this month entitled Is “Machine” the New White? I mentioned a 2010 book by Evelyn Nakano Glenn entitled Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America. I also mentioned that I would probably have more to say about Forced to Care in a later blog post. Well, that time is […]

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