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Scirus - for scientific information. Imagining the Tenth Dimension - A Book by Rob Bryanton. National Air and Space Museum: How Things Fly. Cigar Psychology. Could you ever imagine how much you can learn about smoker from Cigars?

The way people hold their cigars can tell a lot about their moods and characters. An issue of the Italian almanac, II Tabacco, that appeared in the early nineteen twenties contained a curious article headed "Sigaromanzia" describing twelve positions of the hand holding the cigar with captions about corresponding psychological characteristics of the smoker. Evidently the Italian psychologists of the last century were correct. PatrickJMT. Critical Thinking By Example. Negotiate. In college, I had the opportunity to teach a “Student-Initiated Course,” or basically a course on whatever I wanted.

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So I got together with two of my friends and we put together a course on religious studies. Now, Stanford gave us incredible flexibility to teach essentially whatever we wanted…but the student instructors never got letter grades — it was always Pass/No Pass (everybody always passed), issued by the sponsoring professor.