Pastured Meat in Virginia

I’ve heard from many people that meat from animals raised in pastures (free-range, grass-eating, no hormone injections, etc) purchased straight from the farmer is not only much cheaper than supermarket meat, but also tastes much better too…

A Long Road Ahead

We’re now only about a week out from our last day in Minneapolis before moving to Virginia Beach. We’ve been packing for about four days, trying to figure out what we’re taking with us and what we’re not…

Desperation Can Cost You a Job

This article and this  post at the Wall Street Journal led me to a peculiar conclusion: apparently, the best way to lose a chance at getting hired is to want a job really, really...

SIOP’s Identity Crisis: What’s In a Name?

My field’s principle organization, the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, has been recently debating a name change.  It’s a topic about which many feel passionately.  I’ve been resisting joining the fray because I haven’t been...

Online Essay Mills Undermine Education

Essay mills like Essay Writers are, in my mind, an enabler of the worst type of academic fraud that can be perpetuated by an undergraduate.  These mills employ freelance writers to produce essays on-demand...

A Fake Scientific Literature

The success or failure of academia revolves around the integrity of its journals – the “trade mags,” so to speak, of each academic area.  Which makes it all the more disturbing that major academic...