Re: Texas 2010
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 10:17 pm
there are in fact a bunch of books out there that are exceedingly useful for fossils. pretty much any college level historical geology book should give one all the information that one needs for fossils (excluding ID which is all practice).
In other news, I have to say that i am always amazed at how effective studying turns out to be vs "sleep knowledge osmosis" or even the tried and true "buying book that has the information needed, but never actually reading it" methods of learning. In fact, the very idea that studying is a superior method of learning flies in the face of years of evidence compiled by the well known Italian psychologist Bulsittucci (whose works include: "people learn better while intoxicated" and the famous book "homework: it causes brain cancer"). Bulsittucci's research showed that you can in fact have your cake and eat it too. you can do nothing and still succeed. Here is how: while asleep the brain becomes akin to a "knowledge sponge" in that it becomes capable of amazing feats of effortless memorization (you should know this fact from any good scifi movie). However, knowledge gained in this method is virtually useless as it is impossible to recall said information while awake. this is where Bulsittucci enters the picture. He discovered that there is indeed a way to recall information absorbed while asleep. all one has to do is elevate the lower body relative to the head such that one assumes a posture similar to what is colloquially referred to as a hand-stand with the head to one side thus allowing the knowledge stuck in the lower brain to trickle out of ones ear and directly on to a piece of paper ( also saves one the hassle of writing), thus retrieving the information.
personally, I think that that is all just crazy psychological theory mumbo jumbo (IOW nonsense) and have found simplistic studying methods (eg reading the book, flash cards, etc.) to be much more effective when it comes to learning new material.
In other news, I have to say that i am always amazed at how effective studying turns out to be vs "sleep knowledge osmosis" or even the tried and true "buying book that has the information needed, but never actually reading it" methods of learning. In fact, the very idea that studying is a superior method of learning flies in the face of years of evidence compiled by the well known Italian psychologist Bulsittucci (whose works include: "people learn better while intoxicated" and the famous book "homework: it causes brain cancer"). Bulsittucci's research showed that you can in fact have your cake and eat it too. you can do nothing and still succeed. Here is how: while asleep the brain becomes akin to a "knowledge sponge" in that it becomes capable of amazing feats of effortless memorization (you should know this fact from any good scifi movie). However, knowledge gained in this method is virtually useless as it is impossible to recall said information while awake. this is where Bulsittucci enters the picture. He discovered that there is indeed a way to recall information absorbed while asleep. all one has to do is elevate the lower body relative to the head such that one assumes a posture similar to what is colloquially referred to as a hand-stand with the head to one side thus allowing the knowledge stuck in the lower brain to trickle out of ones ear and directly on to a piece of paper ( also saves one the hassle of writing), thus retrieving the information.
personally, I think that that is all just crazy psychological theory mumbo jumbo (IOW nonsense) and have found simplistic studying methods (eg reading the book, flash cards, etc.) to be much more effective when it comes to learning new material.
We can only check out 2 books!!!
But I eventually get around to reading it! 
so uh. claims of learning by osmosis isn't what we really do it's just what we say so um. yeah. 
its okay. we just like to joke around too.