I’ve spent some time off and on during the last few weeks trying to get my Novag Star Diamond chess computer to communicate with my laptop. The Star Diamond is an older model from Novag’s table-top chess computer line. It is a very nice chess computer, allowing you to play a game of chess...
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Social rejection and self-affirmations
An interesting study just got published in the premier experimental psychology journal, Psychological Science. The purpose of the study was to look at the effects of “self-affirmations” on perceived social rejection. People who are very insecure tend to be very sensitive to rejection by...
Symposium SA is born!
Today I had a lovely meeting with David Saussy, a brilliant young man who teaches English here in San Antonio. I will be assisting him in establishing a “great books” club in San Antonio, tentatively called Symposium SA. The first book we will be...
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