From the Undefeated -
An Undefeated history: Golfer Alfred ‘Tup’ Holmes
The desegregation of the Bobby Jones golf course in Atlanta
BY OSMAN NOOR
http://theundefeated.com/videos/golfer-alfred-tup-holmes/
Saturday, March 4, 2017
Biracial Advantages
An excerpt from the New York Times -
What Biracial People Know
By Moises Velasquez-Manoff
Consider this: By 3 months of age, biracial infants recognize faces more quickly than their monoracial peers, suggesting that their facial perception abilities are more developed. Kristin Pauker, a psychologist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and one of the researchers who performed this study, likens this flexibility to bilingualism.
Early on, infants who hear only Japanese, say, will lose the ability to distinguish L’s from R’s. But if they also hear English, they’ll continue to hear the sounds as separate. So it is with recognizing faces, Dr. Pauker says. Kids naturally learn to recognize kin from non-kin, in-group from out-group. But because they’re exposed to more human variation, the in-group for multiracial children seems to be larger.
This may pay off in important ways later. In a 2015 study, Sarah Gaither, an assistant professor at Duke, found that when she reminded multiracial participants of their mixed heritage, they scored higher in a series of word association games and other tests that measure creative problem solving. When she reminded monoracial people about their heritage, however, their performance didn’t improve. Somehow, having multiple selves enhanced mental flexibility.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/opinion/sunday/what-biracial-people-know.html?hpw&rref=sunday-review&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well
What Biracial People Know
By Moises Velasquez-Manoff
Consider this: By 3 months of age, biracial infants recognize faces more quickly than their monoracial peers, suggesting that their facial perception abilities are more developed. Kristin Pauker, a psychologist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and one of the researchers who performed this study, likens this flexibility to bilingualism.
Early on, infants who hear only Japanese, say, will lose the ability to distinguish L’s from R’s. But if they also hear English, they’ll continue to hear the sounds as separate. So it is with recognizing faces, Dr. Pauker says. Kids naturally learn to recognize kin from non-kin, in-group from out-group. But because they’re exposed to more human variation, the in-group for multiracial children seems to be larger.
This may pay off in important ways later. In a 2015 study, Sarah Gaither, an assistant professor at Duke, found that when she reminded multiracial participants of their mixed heritage, they scored higher in a series of word association games and other tests that measure creative problem solving. When she reminded monoracial people about their heritage, however, their performance didn’t improve. Somehow, having multiple selves enhanced mental flexibility.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/opinion/sunday/what-biracial-people-know.html?hpw&rref=sunday-review&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well
Friday, March 3, 2017
Don't Be Fooled
Welcome back Andrew. I've missed your voice.
An excerpt from NY Magazine -
Our President’s Emotional Bait and Switch
By Andrew Sullivan
After the terror, the smile. It suddenly beams, and the voice calms. You feel the warmth again and are momentarily overcome with gratitude and relief. Suddenly, all the man’s malice and rage and narcissism disappear and the world turns suddenly normal. And you thrill to that normality. It’s what you’ve craved for so long, and been denied for so long. You forgive. You hope. You wonder if all the fear and dread you felt only a few moments ago were just in your imagination.
Any victim of an abusive spouse knows this dynamic. And now America is getting used to it. The Donald Trump who put on his grown-up voice last Tuesday night, and fit into a reassuringly familiar ritual of civic democracy, was the very same Donald Trump who had spent much of his first month in office in a series of unprecedented dyspeptic fits against the media, NATO allies, illegal aliens, Meryl Streep … well, you know the list by now. For the first time in public, he spoke in his “indoor voice.” He occasionally smiled, even as he can’t quite rid himself of the Mussolini back-step whenever he earns his craved applause. He used a teleprompter. And of course the media swooned. Who wouldn’t at this point? It’s somewhat unfair to lambaste them for their instant acknowledgment of the speech’s success. It was a success — an emotional blast of pseudo-normality for a serial abuser of liberal democratic norms.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/andrew-sullivan-our-presidents-emotional-bait-and-switch.html
An excerpt from NY Magazine -
Our President’s Emotional Bait and Switch
By Andrew Sullivan
After the terror, the smile. It suddenly beams, and the voice calms. You feel the warmth again and are momentarily overcome with gratitude and relief. Suddenly, all the man’s malice and rage and narcissism disappear and the world turns suddenly normal. And you thrill to that normality. It’s what you’ve craved for so long, and been denied for so long. You forgive. You hope. You wonder if all the fear and dread you felt only a few moments ago were just in your imagination.
Any victim of an abusive spouse knows this dynamic. And now America is getting used to it. The Donald Trump who put on his grown-up voice last Tuesday night, and fit into a reassuringly familiar ritual of civic democracy, was the very same Donald Trump who had spent much of his first month in office in a series of unprecedented dyspeptic fits against the media, NATO allies, illegal aliens, Meryl Streep … well, you know the list by now. For the first time in public, he spoke in his “indoor voice.” He occasionally smiled, even as he can’t quite rid himself of the Mussolini back-step whenever he earns his craved applause. He used a teleprompter. And of course the media swooned. Who wouldn’t at this point? It’s somewhat unfair to lambaste them for their instant acknowledgment of the speech’s success. It was a success — an emotional blast of pseudo-normality for a serial abuser of liberal democratic norms.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/andrew-sullivan-our-presidents-emotional-bait-and-switch.html
Thursday, March 2, 2017
Plugging the Leak
From the New Yorker -
DAILY CARTOON: THURSDAY, MARCH 2ND
By Tom Toro
http://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon-030217-trump-pacifier
DAILY CARTOON: THURSDAY, MARCH 2ND
By Tom Toro
http://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon-030217-trump-pacifier
Creative Minds
From the Huffington Post -
7 Black Innovators Who Are Creating A Better Tomorrow
Their impact is undeniable.
By Taryn Finley
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-innovators-creating-a-better-tomorrow_us_588fc553e4b02772c4e8b346
7 Black Innovators Who Are Creating A Better Tomorrow
Their impact is undeniable.
By Taryn Finley
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-innovators-creating-a-better-tomorrow_us_588fc553e4b02772c4e8b346
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Live Like Royalty
Rent a fairy-tale castle for your next vacation
http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2017/02/28/castle-vacation-rentals/98534146/?csp=travel
http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2017/02/28/castle-vacation-rentals/98534146/?csp=travel
FAMU Grad, Mayor Soon Governor?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/03/01/the-2018-florida-governors-race-just-got-its-first-serious-candidate/?utm_term=.7fb5778a702b
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