This one strikes me as hilarious, as I'm sure he's of the opinion that someone will actually respond. And he's perfectly entitled to that opinion, even though it's definitely inane.

You're referring to learned helplessness paradigm and the experiment you mentioned provides an animal model of depression. In the classic experiment with dogs, learned helplessness resulted when there was inescapable shocks. However, 1/3 of the dogs in the inescapable shock condition did not develop learned…

Wow, some of these references are really dated. AOL? Blockbuster? Google DOT COM? (I don't have enough time to watch the rest of the video, so I bailed after the repetition of Gucci).

When I was in college I'd always say my 'mental testicles.' But now I'm definitely subscribe to Betty White's logic up thread.

Thanks for answering my questions! I thought having lots of floaters would be a solution, but it sounded like something that would be super hard to actually be (as couldn't work a second job in case called in).

She was a lot more fun as a living prop.

I wanted to make sure I didn't offend you by stating the obvious, but might not be obvious to other folks.

Your situation working with infants terrifies me. I can't believe that a supervisor would want ill employees to come in, as children that young are very susceptible to illness (due to the combination of still-developing immune systems and not having all their vaccinations yet [I'm sure you know this, but I'm adding…

A undercover worker project generally wouldn't be done in most public health courses. Such a project tends to come under the 'participant observer' methodology (meaning you participate while you are observing). More of a social anthropology end of the spectrum. Not a bad idea for a project, but unlikely for public…

I'm sad that they didn't ask (or include if they did) Chris Pratt the story behind his amazing French braiding skills.

I'm rounding in on a year and a half (February 2013). Meh - I've been busy with other things.

This was more fun, because I got to toss my Barbies down the stairs.

Oh oh oh, and throwing her down the stairs with a parachute that may or may not work. (A cloth napkin tied well with string that my older sister helped me make worked ONCE and it was brilliant!)

I love 1Q84. I will admit that it does drag a bit in the middle (could have used a more assertive editor), so I've only reread the book once so far.

Fortunately, her project has been successful so far. I think their industry experience played a huge role in this, as there's several 20+ year veterans involved in the project. They've completed post-production on the first half of the series and are filming the second half now, so hopefully it's all going well. I'm a…

I've invested in all of 2 Kickstarters - Reading Rainbow and my best friend's web show. While the RR was obviously going to be a success from the beginning (although I'm still sad it wasn't the most funded ever), it was a bit terrifying to watch my best friend's project maybe/maybe not hit their goal of $25,000. It…

I was about to mention Leslie as well! And the only conservatives in Austin are in the capitol building!

I also remember that the friends who did get into this one (or similar courses) complained that it was a really demanding course. I recall something with science fiction or fantasy requiring the students to read several books each week. It might have been the instructor's way of proving that these were in no way…

I think we could totally suggest this to Coursera...

I just got way too annoyed with the messages. Plus it would also give folks warning that I would ignore them, so that if they really wanted me to reply they would make sure they wrote reasonably well.