Comments for The Eclectic Linda

Comment on About by Susan Potter Thiel

Susan Potter Thiel — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:09:39 +0000

Thought of you many times in recent (post Denver) years. I hope you are doing well. We are still in Vermont and are proud grandparents of two boys, Sam, 7, and Tommy 5. They live only 60 miles away in Massachusetts, so we see them often.

Comment on Nisbett, Jensen and Rushton by eh

eh — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:51:59 +0000

A couple of data points are worth bringing into any discussion on this topic: STANDARDIZED TESTS: THE INTERPRETATION OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC GAPS Black children from the wealthiest families have mean SAT scores lower than white children from families below the poverty line. Black children of parents with graduate degrees have lower SAT scores than white children of parents with a high-school diploma or less.

Comment on Mensa & Mirrors by Joachim Leo Sommerfeld

Joachim Leo Sommerfeld — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:49:14 +0000

Applying Occam’s Razor, I find the following answer:

Light travels in straight lines only. (Never mind gravitational lensing for this one.) Thus, the reflection from the left side of your face will travel straight to the left side of the mirror, the right side to the right. Then, it travels in straight lines right back to you. Of necessity, what reflects from the mirror back to you is reversed side to side. Top and bottom remain right where they are, as you would expect.

Comment on Mensa & Mirrors by Jim Malone

Jim Malone — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:08:40 +0000

I find the convoluted explanations far more interesting, psychologically, than the thought problem itself. I explain it as follows: Nothing is reversed; not left and right; not up and down. If one lies down in front of mirror, the “trick” is revealed (at least it was for me). “Left” and “right” are relative directions only. When one raises one’s right hand, the hand on the right in the reflection raises as it must. No reversal. We are hardwired to resolve human images and the reflection is resolved as a person facing and relative to the “person” in the reflection, our brains reason that “his” or “her” left hand was raised. We can’t help it.

Comment on Mensa & Mirrors by Mark Paris

Mark Paris — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:09:22 +0000

I can’t get to the members’ section, but this is an old one. The correct answer is that mirrors do not reverse left and right or up and down, they reverse in an out. Here is a simple thought experiment: stand before a mirror holding an arrow. Point the arrow to your right. The arrow in the mirror point to your right. Point the arrow down. The mirror arrow points down. Point the arrow directly into the mirror. The mirror arrow point out of the mirror.

Comment on Kindle talk, with touches of autism by Courtney Lloyd

Courtney Lloyd — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:49:01 +0000

there is no permanent cure for autism yet, most autism treatments are experimental-*;

Comment on An editor again by Elinor Miller

Elinor Miller — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:29:46 +0000

Can’t find your e-mail address –how’r things?
Elinor

Comment on An editor again by Elinor Miller

Elinor Miller — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:28:38 +0000

Linda

Comment on Mary Travers by jgm

jgm — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:48:29 +0000

I saw them with my eldest sister, a total boomer, at the beautiful Fox Theater in St. Louis in 2004. Poor Mary was a wreck. She’d hurt her leg or something somehow, allegedly, and was all doped up. She bonked her head on the mic a couple of times.

She could still sing, tho.

Comment on An editor again by jgm

jgm — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:39:55 +0000

Yay, Linda!