Mobile IQ (in Central MN): March 2009

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Aircraft graveyard

From. NEATORAMA

http://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/30/the-boneyard-where-military-aircrafts-go-to-die/

Kevin McGrew PhD
Educational/School Psych.
IAP (www.iapsych.com)

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Sunday, March 29, 2009

NYTimes book review: Get Smart

From The New York Times:

Get Smart
By JIM HOLT

A prominent cognitive psychologist stresses the nonhereditary factors
in determining I.Q....

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/books/review/Holt-t.html

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Kevin McGrew PhD
Educational/School Psych.
IAP (www.iapsych.com)

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Saturday, March 28, 2009

NYTimes: It’s Time to Make a Coffee Run

From The New York Times:

PERSONAL BEST: It's Time to Make a Coffee Run
By GINA KOLATA

Caffeine is one of the few performance enhancers that are not banned
by the World Anti-Doping Agency, and studies have proved that it does
work in athletes' favor....

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/health/nutrition/26best.html

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Kevin McGrew PhD
Educational/School Psych.
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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Monday, March 23, 2009

Great time lapse videos

From WIRED SCIENCE

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/tenlapse.html

Kevin McGrew PhD
Educational/School Psych.
IAP (www.iapsych.com)

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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Friday, March 20, 2009

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

A glimpse into the future of work? The work station of the future? Another crazy idea of IQ McGrew?

Tomorrow I have eye surgery to repair a macular hole that I've had in my retina for 10 years. As I've shared, the hardest part is the recovery. A gas is inserted inside the eye to form a bubble that puts pressure on the repaired area...much like a cast. Since the air bubble more-or-less makes my eye a human level (yes....I've heard the joke about how I could be used to level pictures, shelves, etc.), I must keep my face and eyes pointed towards the ground for 3-4 days. Of course, the first day will likely be spent sleeping (face down) in la la land due to meds. But after that it may be tough to not go crazy.

So..........I've put together the following recovery/work/entertainment station. It consists of a portable massage chair (which they recommend) where I can place my face in the downward position. I can thus, depending on how things go with an eye-patch, and later with blurred vision in the recovering eye, look down and read books, magazines etc.

Even more exciting are the three screens visible in the picture below. It may be possible to work on my primary computer (on table) or to do some work via the netbook computer immediately below the head piece. On the chair is a portable DVD/CD player for watching videos (placed where the netbook is) or listening to an audio book I have for this fun time. Down on the floor (the image with the glare) is a small TV....so I can watch NCAA March Madness, MSNBC, etc. And....stacked on the chair and ledge will be various reading material.

Here is view that shows the TV.

Below is a direct view of the netbook...from which I hope to catch up on reading various journal articles in PDF format. This is how my world view shall be....unless I'm sleeping (which I will likely do a lot)

So...if you start to get mass quantities of emails from me, see many blog posts, etc...it means I'm feeling well and I may have discovered the future of efficient working (all one would need to add is an IV coffee drip and a cath tube and waste bag). Who knows...maybe I'll be more productive than I've ever been.....but I tend to doubt it. Most bets are on me simply watching TV, DVDs, listening to B. Obama's audio book and sleeping. But we shall see...it may start a workplace revolution.

"Eye" shall return.

Marital humor

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Monday, March 16, 2009

Seven natural wonders

From NEATORAMA.

http://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/16/7-phenomenal-wonders-of-the-natural-world/

Kevin McGrew PhD
Educational/School Psych.
IAP (www.iapsych.com)

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Sunday, March 15, 2009

Mac and Mary on the mend

And Tiki also visits Mary on week 5.

Friday, March 13, 2009

Humor break: Physics humor

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Thursday, March 12, 2009

Bruce should work for cable TV

Excellent interviewer.

Handsome officer

Portrait of Mac when serving in Italy

Macs war medals

My fathers war medals. The Black Buffalo patch may be the most significant as it represents the black only group that Mac was a white officer for during WW II.