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April 5, 2011 - 2:21pm
In today’s Academic Minute, SUNY-Canton's Maureen Maiocco discusses why children often benefit from thinking time, and why using timeouts can be counterproductive. Maiocco is director of the Early Childhood AS Degree Program at the State University of New York's campus Canton. Find out more about her here.
April 4, 2011 - 2:24pm
In today’s Academic Minute, Fairleigh Dickinson University's Jason Scorza discusses the unique challenges faced by today’s veterans as they enter colleges and universities. Scorza is an associate professor of philosophy and political science at Fairleigh Dickinson and author of 2007's Strong Liberalism: Habits of Mind for Democratic Citizenship. Find out more about him here.
April 1, 2011 - 2:26pm
In today’s Academic Minute, Rochester Institute of Technology's John Capps examines what the jokes we find funny say about our values. Capps is an associate professor of philosophy and senior associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts at RIT, and co-author, with his father, Donald Capps, professor emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary, of You’ve Got to Be Kidding!: How Jokes Can Help You Think. Find out more about him here.
March 31, 2011 - 2:34pm
In today's Academic Minute, DePaul University's Joseph Ferrari exposes many myths about why people procrastinate -- across the global cultural spectrum. Ferrari is a professor of psychology and a St. Vincent de Paul Distinguished Professor at DePaul, and author of Still Procrastinating? The No Regrets Guide to Getting It Done. Find out more about him here.
March 30, 2011 - 12:41pm
In today’s Academic Minute, Harvard University's Peter Godfrey-Smith examines the brain of the octopus -- with the eye of a philosopher. Godfrey-Smith is a professor of philosophy at Harvard, and author of Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature and Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. Find out more about him here.
