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. A similar experiment has been conducted recently by a team of modern experts and the results were almost the same. So pay more attention to the people that surround you, and perhaps you'll discover something new about them.
A good orator, a fine psychologist Judicious, fair-minded Spirited, touchy, though a man of his word Sprightly, outgoing, self-willed Elegant, grand Tranquil, determined Obdurate, selfish Practical, vindictive A person on his own, a trimmer Provident Suspicious, skeptic. 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.
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. Until we came along. You see, I was never the smartest person in any school I attended.
We would basically write our own ticket! One of my co-instructors was amazed that I convinced the sponsoring professor to agree. But my other co-instructor hesitated. To give you some context, this guy was a PhD student in Computer Science at Stanford and had previously attended IIT, one of the most competitive technical universities in the world. “Dude,” I said, “what’s your problem? “No, Ramit,” he said, “I don’t know about this. “What the hell?” I just stared at him. 1. 2.