Malcolm Gladwell, author of the books "Blink" and " The Tipping Point" writes a rather good article in the New Yorker this week about the both the power and danger of generalizations, and more specifically, what kind of generalizations are useful and what kinds are not.
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ClickerExpo Tucson - a photoset on Flickr
By Bill Peña on 02/08/2006Photos taken by roving cameraphone photographer Bill Peña at ClickerExpo Tucson. Here's a basketball-playing rabbit to whet your appetite!
Click to Win! Available for download!
By Bill Peña on 01/31/2006Get it first! The highly sought-after Click to Win!, a collection of dog training articles by Karen Pryor for The AKC Gazette, is now available for download at the Clickertraining.com Store.
Dog-gone discipline--TAGteach in the news
By Miranda Hersey Helin on 01/27/2006From the Swampscott Reporter:
The move to begin using the clicker with humans happened almost by accident. Gymnastics coach Theresa McKeon had been using the clicking system with her horses, and one day she began to wonder if she could use it with her students. She took the device with her to the gymnasium and knew almost immediately she was onto something.
A podcast about clicker training
By Bill Peña on 01/25/2006Check out episode #4 of K9Cast, it's all about clicker training. They seem to like us!
Anyone else know of other dog-related podcasts, perhaps others that have covered clicker training?