Phil's Fiefdom

The New New York Knicks!

Nine of the last ten!  Seven straight on the road!

How fitting that our two best players now wear numbers 1 (Stoudemire) and 2 (Felton).

Talk about a new 1-2 punch!

Blog by iphone

Testing blogbooster iPhone app

Typepad has a free version?

Wow, it's had a free version for more than a year, and I didn't know about it!  So... here we go again a bloggin!

Christmas comes early for Phil the casual blogger.

Flunking Someone

I teach in the University of the East Graduate school, and I'm really surprised at how hard it is to flunk someone.  Out of 12 people who took a final exam I co-prepared... one did extremely well at 92%, while two didn't even get half right.

I always try to give folks a chance, but no matter how I look at it, I couldn't pass these two nor raise their grades.  The answers they gave simply told me that either they weren't listening or didn't get it at all.  When I try to write questions, I try to make them fair -you listen to my lectures, you'll get it.

The fact that one got 92 and about four others got high 80s scores means the test wasn't impossible...

Oh well, never knew that flunking someone was this hard.

Sleeplessness and Heart Disease Connected?

A recent New York Times article talks about a study linking sleeplessness to heart disease.  Here are some excerpts:

I wish to point out some two thousand year old Chinese medicine passages:

"The Heart houses the Mind."

This implies a relationship between our minds' ability to rest comfortably and sleep and overall Heart health.  The relationship may not be directly causal, but it's there.

Yet once again, Chinese medicine beats "modern" medicine by millenia.