Category: UVa

Week 7 – Know Thyself | OF COURSE chocolate is good for you

I have to admit that I love chocolate! As Professor Green was talking about confirmation bias, I kept thinking of my friends’ jokes about my knack of finding all available reports of health benefits for things that I especially like – especially chocolate.

April 19, 2013
Digital Public Library of America Now Open | UVa joins nationwide digital public library project

The Digital Public Library of America is now open. Take a look! U.Va. set to contribute more than 10,000 digital images to literary database By Shannon Reres | Apr 14 Marshall Bronfin /The Cavalier Daily A collection of more than 10,000 digital images from the University’s library will soon be available at The Digital Public…

April 19, 2013
Week 6 – Know Thyself | Now you have hit a nerve, Prof Green!

Old Dog/New Tricks In listening to Lecture 11.4, I was silently agreeing with the idea that a two year old probably cannot will to change his/her behavior, when I was struck by a sentence further on which stated that we may lose the ability to change the way we behave as we get older. Now that is…

April 14, 2013
Week 5 – Know Thyself | The adaptive unconscious – my brain is a computer with programs running in the background

My favorite novel of all time is Jane Eyre I found it interesting when I saw that Jane Eyre was mentioned in the title of one of the lectures, and now I must say that the fifth week of Know Thyself has made me even more glad that I am participating in this adventure! Prof…

April 8, 2013
Week 4 – Know Thyself | Was that a Freudian slip?

For my generation, learning about Freud and Freudian slips was an eye-opening experience We were pretty innocent of the ways of the world even as college students, so Freud’s ideas were very startling and, as such, really had an impact. Once one learns about Freudian slips, they seem to be a constant theme of life that…

April 1, 2013
Week 3 – Know Thyself | Maybe I am smarter than I thought!

I feel more intelligent – Thanks Gilbert Ryle! I have aways known that I am much better at learning how to do things such as speak a new language or write a computer program or solve a physical science problem than I ever am at memorizing a lot of facts or dates.

March 23, 2013