Thursday, March 17, 2016

New Jams

A fun new genre of music that has been invented on the internet is called Vaporwave. Please enjoy a sample of the music here. It's very funky.

http://keatscollective.bandcamp.com/album/hit-vibes

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Look vs See vs Watch

I've had a lot of students ask me about the difference between these words over my time here and the answer is not always easy to give. However, if you go to this link you will see an easy to understand explanation.

Go here to try an exercise.

Monday, March 7, 2016

How to access scholarly journal articles for free! (Use at your own risk)

Ever been frustrated when you can only read the abstract or summary of a scholarly or journal article. Well, no longer worry about such frustrations. Thanks to a kindly woman in Russia who wants to make all information available to the public we can access seemingly any article we wish by simply following these steps. 

First please go to this website: https://sci-hub.io/ On this site you will need some information to continue to the article you wish to read. For our purposes it will usually be a DOI number. Below is an example. Simply copy and paste into the search bar and voila! We have access. Enjoy!



Just click open! 

Thursday, March 3, 2016

B2.2 The Brain

If you are interested in experimental psychology I highly recommend this film... The Stanford Prison Experiment

Here is the trailer for the film.


Warning! Strong language!