ledge and a personal account of Mr. Livie-Noble's own work, which is by no means typical and which cannot, and many psychologists will think should not, become a pattern for the future. Mr. Livie-Noble himself points out that the work of Psychologists in Public Schools (his own field) should not be compared too closely with that of the Psychologist to a Local Education Authority. He envisages a...

The year was 1997. The news was amazing: a team of Scottish scientists that included Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell had cloned a lamb from an adult sheep. Although Dolly had been born on July 5, 1996, the team had delayed the announcement to protect their ability to publish their work,1 which they did nearly eight months later in the science journal Nature.2 Dolly promptly became a media sensati...

In one of the first papers about the complexity of puzzles, Robertson and Munro [12] proved that a generalized form of the thenpopular Instant Insanity puzzle is NP-complete. Here we study several variations of this puzzle, exploring how the complexity depends on the piece shapes and the allowable orientations of those shapes. Prepared in honor of Ian Munro’s 66th birthday.

Fritz Heider was a wanderer, someone who liked to survey and take the measure of whatever he encountered. In his formative years, he was a wanderer in the geographical sense — hiking in his beloved Austrian mountains and traveling throughout much of Europe. In his professional years, he was a wanderer in the intellectual sense — taking daily walks for the purpose of analyzing a difficult concep...

In developing European standards for the psychological profession, two main approaches to the definition of professional competence have been proposed. One focuses on the roles and functions psychologists should be able to perform (output model), the other on the educational curricula that should be followed in order to become a psychologist (input model). This article starts with a discussion ...

I am always attempting to develop new and better ways to teach beginning teachers “all there is to know” about child development and special education. Over the years this process has lead me to feel more and more disillusioned. I am convinced that we need a total revamp of how we approach teaching educational psychology and propose that our discipline re-define what is considered to be essenti...