Patrick F. Clarkin, Ph.D.

(You may want to read Part 1 here.

(You may want to read Part 1 here.

Thorin: “Farewell, good thief.

“(This is) a lecture on the mingling and merging and therefore on the oneness and unity of all the races of mankind...Let no Irishman throw a stone at the foreigner; he may hit his own clansman.

Summary: (1) Previous research shows that an immigration raid in Iowa in 2008 was associated with lower birth weight. (2) This was true of infants born to both foreign-born and US-born Latina women, suggesting this association centered around fear of being

If you ever get close to a human And human behavior Be ready, be ready to get confused … They’re terribly, terribly, terribly moody … And there is no map And a compass wouldn’t help at all (Bjork, Human Behaviour , 1993) .

Last week, Elon Musk wrote that “USAID is/was a radical-left political psy op,” as a partial explanation for his desire to close the organization.

“When there is a storm, and you stand in front of a tree, if you look at its branches, you swear it will fall.

Demagogue /n./ ˈdem’ə gäg’ : a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power.

Together with my brilliant colleagues Delaney Glass (UToronto) and Meredith Reiches (UMass Boston), we recently published our article “Coming of age in war: Early life adversity, age at menarche, and mental health” in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology.