The term WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) came into common use when computer screens became capable of putting letters and words on the screen that would look the way a page printed from them looked. At this point, of course, you have to be pretty old to remember what things were like in the “old days,” before WYSIWYG […]
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Posted August 31, 2019 in Monthly News John Lennon is usually given credit for saying, Life is what happens while you are making other plans. A long time ago, a Scottish poet, Robert Burns, commented that The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray.” I suspect that the idea is very old and has been expressed in many languages. […] Posted June 30, 2019 in Monthly News A long time ago, back in the the Age of Rock & Roll, a group called Aerosmith wrote and performed a song called “Dream On”: I confess that I am a child of the Rock & Roll era. I hit adolescence at the time Bill Haley and the Comets released Rock Around the […] Posted June 30, 2018 in Monthly News I base my title on a line from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. The original refers to Caesar’s betrayal by Brutus. Being stabbed by his friend was Caesar’s unkindest cut. My recent cut was for surgical purposes: I had a hernia that needed repair, and the only way to repair a hernia is to cut through layers […] Posted February 28, 2017 in Monthly News Debra’s article this month, “Mohini,” provides an example of learned behavior. Having learned how much space she was allowed, Mohini remained within her learned limits, even when more space was available to her. Behavior is often developed—shaped—by environment. Humans demonstrate this every bit as much as tigers and other animals. B. F. Skinner was a […] |
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