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"Of entrepreneurs and chickens"
By Rob Winters - Published on Sunday, 23 October 2011 16:56
"I teach a course on "Psychology for Managers" in an executive masters program. It's beginning to dawn on me that the title is no good. It should be "Psychology for Executives" or better yet, "Psychology for Entrepreneurs." For what do managers do? They manage. How are you doin'? Oh, I manage. Not very exciting. Entrepreneurs, on the other hand, prend entre. They undertake and take under, though not in the funereal sense. Or, according to some voices in the "Occupy Wall Street" movement, they do this too.There is also a psychology OF managers and entrepreneurs, and Busenitz & Barney [BB] (1997) published a now classic paper on how they differ. BB presented evidence that entrepreneurs are less rational than managers. They are more overconfident and they rush to conclusions more cheerfully. In some way, one may take this as a reflection of their minds. Entrepreneurs rely more on intuition and less on careful analysis of evidence."
Read more: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/one-among-many/201110/entrepreneurs-and-chickens
"FDA finally admits chicken meat contains cancer-causing arsenic (but keep eating it, yo)"
By Rob Winters - Published on Sunday, 23 October 2011 16:46
"(NaturalNews) After years of sweeping the issue under the rug and hoping no one would notice, the FDA has now finally admitted that chicken meat sold in the USA contains arsenic, a cancer-causing toxic chemical that's fatal in high doses. But the real story is where this arsenic comes from: It's added to the chicken feed on purpose!Even worse, the FDA says its own research shows that the arsenic added to the chicken feed ends up in the chicken meat where it is consumed by humans. So for the last sixty years, American consumers who eat conventional chicken have been swallowing arsenic, a known cancer-causing chemical. (http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/loc...)
Until this new study, both the poultry industry and the FDA denied that arsenic fed to chickens ended up in their meat."
"Deadly rabies may be behind uncontrollable sex drive"
By Rob Winters - Published on Sunday, 23 October 2011 16:39
"Washington: The rabies virus could take a woman from distressing sexual symptoms to death in less than a week, researchers have warned.
They cite the case of an Indian woman who told her doctor she had a sudden and persistent increase in her sex drive died four days later of rabies.
The 28-year-old had complained that she felt constantly aroused, sometimes with no stimulation at all."
Read more: http://zeenews.india.com/news/health/sexual/rabies-behind-uncontrollable-sex-drive_14300.html
"Taking steps to relieve plantar fasciitis"
By Rob Winters - Published on Sunday, 23 October 2011 16:26
"Reach a certain age, and it sometimes seems the world is full of Latin-rooted maladies just waiting to waylay you and flog your spirit into submission.
Plantar fasciitis is one of them, and it's sadly familiar to millions of people, from elite athletes to "Hey, why me?" homebodies.
The painful syndrome is an inflammation of the plantar ligament, which originates in the sole of the heel and extends toward the toes. Caused by micro- tears in the ligament, it is felt most acutely upon waking, making even a simple walk from bed to bathroom excruciating.
Perhaps you are reading this and thinking, "Oh, come on. Just how painful could plantar fasciitis be?"
Doubter, try this test."
"Is the death of a human being a reason to celebrate?"
By Rob Winters - Published on Friday, 21 October 2011 09:15
"By now, most of us have heard the news that Qaddafi is dead. US news outlets heralded this final chapter in the toppling of a dictatorship that strangled Libya for decades. And, most anchors welcomed commentators both from our own country and from that region of the Middle East.Many on TV or radio spoke of the new dawn in Libya for freedom, but some openly celebrated Qaddafi's death. The tone of the celebratory comments seemed vindictive and gleeful. The situation now begs the questions: "Does someone's death ever deserve a celebration?"
The question impacts us as parents of young, impressionable children. When adults express joy mixed with revenge on TV, children hear the concreteness of the message. Youngsters do not grasp the abstract notion that Qaddafi's death equates to cessation of a terrorist regime. Instead, they hear adults blending pleasure with violence.
Behaviorally, children can learn to associate happiness with the use of violence to seek revenge or to right a wrong. The ideas that form can combine with other forms of learning, such as modeling violent cartoons, to produce beliefs that normalize and accept violence as justified and pleasurable. Young children learn these concrete associations, and run the risk of applying them in the real world."
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