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• Hefting for a Maximum Distance Throw

  

  From the task dynamic analysis of throwing for maximum distance, we've identified the fact that for a given release angle and maximum release velocity, there... Read more

  The 17 January 2013 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• Methodological Localism and Actor-centered Sociology

  

  I've advocated in earlier posts for two related ideas: the idea of actor-centered sociology and the idea of methodological localism. Read more

  The 16 January 2013 by   Dlittle30
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• Learning About the Future

  

  Photo courtesy of iStockphoto.Taking the class Introduction to Future Studies from the University of Houston has been one of the most rewarding educational... Read more

  The 15 January 2013 by   Realizingresonance
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• Character and Personality

  

  If we want to have a more adequate theory of the actor (link), we need to broaden our understanding of the factors and capacities that affect action. Read more

  The 13 January 2013 by   Dlittle30
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• Polaris Consciousness

  

  Sudṛiṣṭi, "Mystical Vision" Bodhisattva (妙見菩薩) is a personified coalescence of the field of Polaris (Alpha Ursae Minoris, or North Star, Lodestar, Guiding... Read more

  The 13 January 2013 by   Tantrawave
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• Hume’s “Natural History of Religion”

  

  In 1757, David Hume published The Natural History of Religion. It was a radical and innovative book that constitutes the first systematic effort to explain... Read more

  The 09 January 2013 by   Cris
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• Hierarchy of Needs

  

  My school does a program with a school for girls from difficult family situations in Pinsk, Belarus. Students travel to Pinskover their winter break and hang ou... Read more

  The 08 January 2013 by   Starofdavida
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• Simon on Complexity

  

  Herbert Simon's The Sciences of the Artificial - 3rd Edition provided an alternative model for thinking about society. We can think of social institutions as... Read more

  The 06 January 2013 by   Dlittle30
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• Behavioral Science

  

  (1958-59 class of Fellows at Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; link) Sometimes the rubric "behavioral science" is used to capture some of th... Read more

  The 26 December 2012 by   Dlittle30
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• Our First Paper Based on the Blog is out in Time for Christmas!

  

  Last year we were invited to contribute to a special issue of Avant, an interdisciplinary open access journal that publishes in English and Polish. Read more

  The 25 December 2012 by   Andrew D Wilson
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