"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research ... " ~ Einstein

You are entitled to your opinion, but not to your own facts.

To search the Internet: Use google.com and a phrase with words you are looking for,
BUT the results will not tell you whom to believe.

Some Past Topics
Cedarville.edu: for topics in psychology diet/food choices & taboos homosexuality
see Chandler Burr's A Separate Creation		 e-com:  technology and commerce cannibalism
dream*** body image unravelling the human genome racism/zenophobia

coloring and spots in (other) animals

 Cancer
bigfoot/ homo erectus?
crypto-critters		 chain letters traffic in human organs
incl. skin		 'recreational' drugs geomancy ley [lines]
pyramids' arrangement immigration/emigration  scent/perfume effects of nuclear war homeopathy
Nike's bad reputation Hippies What you know about human migration to the Americas may be wrong. psychopaths cosmetics: lip gloss
hair dyes
knowledge theory G7/World Trade conference and democracy/ free speech Skepticism & urban legends: Is it true/real? siblings and birth order

Is there a  middle child syndrome?
*You suggest the topic for the term project.   Ask informally (by email or in person) if you are not sure it is suitable.  Then, you have to formulate ONE clear, straight-forward and simple question about the topic so that you can get approval, reserve it, and  get help with your topic by writing a Research Proposal.

In order to do that, you will have to define the topic, look at the history of it, consider other aspects of it, and look up the most recent information concerning it. You should also try to relate your topic to us here, at this time and place.  Follow the RESEARCH STRATEGY you learned in the library assignment.

If you need/ask for help, or if I get interested in your topic, then I will suggest sources, links and ideas. Eg.

aboriginal or indigenous peoples of Quebec, eastern Canada, etc.

aging

alien abductions
a syndrome?
Ghosts and UFO abductions
Oct 26, 1999 Rough Cuts a CBC tv program showed
  Haunted House, Haunted Mind  in which the ghost experience is replicated.
" ...  brain-science lab at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario run by Dr. Michael Persinger. "
using Google, see also sacred sites, tectonic strain theory
 

%Alzheimer's
http://www.alz.org/
about.comAlzheimer's D.
Alzh. in Australia

Astrology
freebies, info., chart-making

cancer
NOAH ***
Cancer News
starve the tumour, not poison the patient: find out about Dr. Judah Folkman's work on angiogenesis > Endostatin
breast cancer in Texas, USA
cancer in Canada, editorial by Dr. Shibata, 1998

cannibalism:
There is an on-going debate as to whether, apart from emergencies/ ritual cannibalism, there is any evidence for the regular use of people for food.  See Arens, W.  The Man-eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.
- video series on Discovery Channel

chivalry
Mongols Yasa
Japanese Bushido
pirates, even, had a code :

complexion/colouring of skin and hair
animals  race/ xenophobia: hair with spots, domestic animals versus wild, Bible

conflict in Israel/Palestine
Jerusalem Post  of the day when Israeli p.m Sharon goes to mosque [Sept. 29?, 2000]
- The Druzes  'unitarians' or Ismailis? not Muslim, but Arab. Not Jewish, but Israeli.
- a diary of the early days of the conflict

"crypto-critters" mysterious animal- sightings
bigfoot/yeti/migue:  interesting articles about past finds

diet ie. choice of foods/menu
food taboos: Chinese menu
"marker" foods

ufo conspiracies of government to hide things from us
about.com's links to ...

ufo stuff

US government stuff
 

DRUGS
LeDain talks about his work for the 1971/2 Royal Commission on Marijuana, etc.
The 1972 Royal Commission on the non-medical use of drugs at the Drug Library site.
Shulgin interview:  chemistry king at biopsychiatry

MDMA experiments (Ecstasy or 'xtc')
eating disorders
The Eating Disorders Association

E-commerce, etc.
Noam Chomsky at MIT  Apr. 10, 2001

body image
Why is fat not considered attractive? (It used to be.)
See Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth: Our standards of beauty do not come from the media/Barbies.
 - one doctor ( Feb.1998) says that the thin ideal is NOT due to the media, but to women's trying to prevent pregnancies.

Get the original article via a periodical search. Search using google.com and a phrase with words you are looking for, eg. obesity, leptin, fat, self-loathing, stereotyping, parents, adenovirus.
 

genetics and ...,
Human Genome Project
Human Genome Diversity

The Human Genome Diversity Project's finding is that there is no such thing as a clearly defined race, viz:  "The HGD Project will also provide the scientific data to confirm and   support what is already clear from populations studies -- that, in biological terms, there is no such thing as a clearly defined race.
Biologically, there is a continual graduation from one population to another"  excerpted from HGDP's Aleghero Summary Report  [http://www.stanford.edu/group/morrinst/hgdp/summary93.html]
A mouse has only c.300 fewer genes than us, and we have only around 300,000 - waaay fewer than scientists had believed.
Also ours includes the code of all the "lesser" species -- so the evolution hypothesis is now accepted theory, ie. 'a fact'

geomancy;  Is there anything to Feng Shui, ley lines and other ideas about energies of the earth?

Ley Society:  http://www.leyhunter.com/begin/index.htm , see Alfred Watkins (1855 - 1935)

gum [Nina, use Google.com and search using the various related words]
history & links

Hippies and today's youth
Keep on Truckin' archives: 1999's Woodstock cf. 1969's

homosexuality
NYTimes review of Burr's Separate Creation, also talks of leVay's research
 

human origins 

anthrop phys. 101 u. mich     Truax' test [and summary of ]  hominids, etc.

human migrations

Fagan  Out of Eden

Delahaye, see a review in Khandro Net

hair dyeing
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/4266/color.html#mort

immigration
Can. Govt.

Ontario agencies to benefit Immigrants

les ethnies, an appeal to reason re: Parizeau's infamous remark

a paper on literacy and its definition as affecting a new immigrant to Canada

a paper on immigrants, policy, and business  with bibliography

knowledge
Bertrand Russell's theory of knowledge

$language
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis:  right or wrong     go to #29

language construction kit

lip gloss:  addiction to it?

Philosophy's Kiss me formula, etc.

moral development [ethics in kids]

mutilation: masochism

magic x   search mango tree trick/ net of magic

night
light pollution

nuclear war:  what are the effects of any possible,  US government agency's Ickle report
 

psychology and psychiatry
DSM IV is the diagnostic manual for psychiatry and is available online.
Sociopathy aka psychopathy or "antisocial personality disorder"
For every "serial killer" there are 200,000 - 300,000 or more of these less 'flashy' criminals.
Cleckly and Hare developed a test to diagnose this:
 

pyramids of Egypt
Bauval presents constellation theory of arrangement at Gizeh

scent

NYTimes Review of Books:  the surreal novel/mystery  Perfume by Patrick Süskind

Smell:  The Secret Seducer

A review of Edwin T. Morris. Fragrance;  The Story of ...  [for words to look up, etc.]

science and inaccurate claims

*** check out PBS.org for transcripts of shows on science (and other topics, too )

science and spirituality
check out the Tapestry radio archives at CBC
 

+Is there any truth in/to...  ?  the straight dope site
"snuff" films;  an urban legend? Researcher: do a search for the names and titles in that message.

CinemaX-what does the FBI say?           - the original 1977 film?

urbanlegend.com/snuff with links
 

Spiritual help in visions

- some email messages on visions God, Jesus or not, etc.See why this sort of topic is not a good one for this course - too involved, too many issues, not possibility of 'fact' or 'proof' (but it's interesting)

racism, xenophobia and bigotry
racism in the USA

reason and understanding
http://chandra.bgsu.edu/~gcd/Spacetime2.html numbers and cosmology and Aristotle etc.

torture still goes on

urban legends
www.urbanlegends. com
 

war on women  (includes fgm)

http://www.equalitynow.org/brochure_eng_hub.html

1986, UN recommendations to improve status of women

Asian Pacific trafficking in women
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Miscellaneous * Also, bolded topics in blue table below were not done recently

Dangerous fungus on 48Hrs. Sept. 28/00
stachybotros atra

What is the ether?
ether

Consciousness, Robert Monroe Journeys Out of the Body etc.
Ganzfield effect
 

Past topics (2001) -- some could be done again.
What do you want to know ? 
aboriginals slavery:  now & then govt. conspiracies, ufos astrology
chivalry war on women? scepticism 
Is there any truth to ... ?		 unusual states of consciousness the night has disappeared
spiritual help in visions torture science & spirituality
$language fun sexual attitudes urban legends technology human origins
moral development development of reason ancient human migrations alien abductions Who are the Druzes?
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You get to conduct a seminar on aspects of your topic and later, write a final 1,500-word paper, too.