Formerly Fat, Formerly Skinny, Now Just Jon 2.0
It’s been over a year since my last Weight Loss / Fitness update (Click here for the whole story), and I figured I’d put…
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Writing from the lab and the life around it.
Psychology, teaching, technology, personal essays, and twenty years of useful detours. Newest first; rabbit holes welcome.
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Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the power of a telephone call. I live in a region where many people still believe that…
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Our learning management system asks us to write an “About your Instructor” page for our students. Here’s Fall 2023’s – I think I’ve reached…
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We’re at the end of the Summer II term, and I’m reading term papers. It has made me think about the biggest issues I…
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I teach a variety of courses where I give comments to students that I sometimes like to re-use or modify for the next semester…
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BattlingPickle’s PsychOut Discord
A colleague and I are creating a Discord server to discuss psychology and all things related (Technology, community, academia, culture, etc…) We’re hoping to…
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Each semester I teach General Psychology, I do an activity where I ask a series of True/False questions to determine if my students believe…
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A few days ago, my MacBook Pro had to go on a quick trip to Texas for a doctor’s appointment (a.k.a. Some service work…
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Dear Student in Fall Twenty Two Time to Start School, It’s True! Your Weird Prof Mentioned His Site You Went There One Night And…
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I Was Fat… Was I Unhealthy?
What exactly is unhealthy? It probably definitely isn’t BMI (Body Mass Index). In this post I discuss a different number – FFMI (Fat Free…
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