New Year’s Eve Folklore
What are your New Year’s Eve traditions?
December 2009
A Guide To The Good Life:
Letting Go of the Past…and the Present
Some advice on how to live the “good life”.
Superman Promoted the “American Way”
An excerpt from Inventing the “American Way”.
Monthly Gleanings: December 2009
Anatoly Liberman’s monthly gleanings.
After Khomeini:
President Ahmadinejad’s Hardliner Populism and Nuclear Policy
An excerpt from After Khomeini.
Sean Sime on A Field Guide to the Birds of Brazil
Sean Sime talks birds.
The ABC’s of Health Education
Some entries from The Dictionary of Health Education.
The Challenges of Teaching Introductory Psychology Courses
An excerpt from Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major: Research, Cases, and Recommendations
On Santa Claus
A closer look at Santa Claus.
Brooklyn: “The Hippest Part of New York City”
Sharon Zukin offers readers a glimpse of Brooklyn.
Winter Harvest
Anatoly Liberman looks at usage and spelling.
A Few Questions For Sally McMillen
Sally McMillen answers our questions about the days when it was scandalous for a woman to speak in public.
William Faulkner’s Inner Demons
An excerpt from Philip Weinstein’s Becoming Faulkner.
To Howard Dean: It is 2009, not 1965
Elvin Lim addresses Howard Dean.
Video Interviews with Gustav Meier
Four video interviews with Gustav Meier.
Legal and Illegal Drugs of Abuse:
Both are Hurting Our Country
Authors Eugene M. Rubin MD, PhD and Charles F. Zorumski MD argue that that efforts aimed at prevention and more effective early interventions for addictive disorders could have much greater impact on our country and health care economics than new treatments for the medical problems that result from these addictions.