This week I want to look at one of my all-time favorite summer songs, Speakers, Bleachers and Preachers by Brandon Lay. Every time I tuned into Wild Country 99.9, this was always the song that was playing, and I have to be honest, it took a while for it to grow on me, but now, […]
Ted Talk: The neuroscience of restorative justice – Daniel Reisel Details (From Ted.com): Daniel Reisel studies the brains of criminal psychopaths (and mice). And he asks a big question: Instead of warehousing these criminals, shouldn’t we be using what we know about the brain to help them rehabilitate? Put another way: If the brain can […]
For this week’s blog, I’d like to look at a pretty stereotypically southern song, namely, I’m Southern by The Cadillac Three. I’m also southern so I feel like a particular expert on this song if you ignore that I was only a southerner from the ages of 0-9. The song starts out a little differently than […]
Potential Paper Topic: The shift from the DSM-1 to the DSM-5 and how diagnostic methods in psychology changed from the APA’s release of the first edition has changed to the latest release (the 5th edition). I think this topic will work because there is a lot of researchable data on the APA’s website itself that […]
This week I’d like to look at somewhat of a “classic” country singer’s song, namely Kenny Chesney’s She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy. I can already tell from the title of the song that we’ll probably have a similar problem with this song that we had with the last one, ie. we won’t be able to […]