ColaDaily.com is your source for free news and information in Columbia and the Midlands. Robert “Bob” Vero Heckel died Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. He was 90. Born in Chicago Heights, Illinois, Bob and his younger brother, Moby (Verne Kennedy Heckel Jr.), grew up in Prospect, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. Asthma limited Bob’s physical activity for eight years, and during that time he developed a love of reading, a habit that stuck and led to a home filled with shelves of novels, history, poetry, and academic books. He made up for early indoor confinement by participating in all the high school >>>

A free BPS public seminar exploring the relationship between kinaesthesia - the sensation by which bodily position, weight, muscle tension, and movement are perceived - and avant garde artists will be held on Monday evening (1 February 2016) in London from 6-7:30pm. The seminar ‘Kinaesthesia and the Avant-garde' is the second of two seminars in a series called the History of the Psychological Disciplines. The series is hosted by the BPS History of Psychology Centre in conjunction with University College London.During the presentation the speaker, Dr Irina Sirotkina (Russian Academy of >>>

  WILKES-BARRE — Wilkes University’s new NeuroTraining and Research Center will help students and staff train their brains to stay calm and get more focussed. “The brain can change,” Wilkes psychology professor Ed Schicatano said, explaining you can train the brain to “become calmer” and focus better. The NeuroTraining and Research Center officially opened Thursday with a ribbon cutting and open house. It was developed to support the work of students and faculty in Wilkes interdisciplinary neuroscience major. Students can complete internships at the center, >>>

A LEADING crime professor has revealed the "warped psychology" of the serial killer behind the murder of schoolgirl Milly Dowler. Professor Peter Squires, who teaches criminology at the University of Brighton, said Levi Bellfield's prison confession to the murder is "attention-seeking". His comments come after yesterday's news that Bellfield's shock revelation has prompted police to review probes into a number of other crimes. The killer was given a whole-life prison sentence in June 2011 for killing the 13-year-old schoolgirl. Commenting >>>

Our national habit when talking about rape often ignores the perpetrator's role and puts the onus on the victim. Such emphasis misdirects prevention efforts. Rapists cause rape, yet recent high-profile surveys have focused on victims and ignored perpetrators. The Campus Climate Survey Validation Study (CCSVS), released January 20, 2016 by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, is commendable for broadening inquiry to question those who cause the harm while also addressing flaws in other surveys such as the 2015 American Association of Universities Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Misconduct and Sexual >>>

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(Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images) By Melissa Dahl In 2013, a mountain climber named Chad Thomas told The Wall Street Journal that he'd returned a backpack to the outdoor-clothing and -gear retailer REI earlier that year -- a backpack that he had, by the way, originally purchased in 2004. Nine years later, it "was getting old and dirty, and I didn't like it anymore," Thomas told WSJ. (You don't say.) At the time, REI had an unlimited return policy, so the store in San Ramon, California, not only accepted the backpack's return but gave Thomas an additional $17 to match the item's current price. Related: >>>

Gerald Farin Download Full Image Upon obtaining his doctorate in mathematics from Technical University Braunschweig, Farin set out on his geometric modeling path. He went where the action was for computer graphics in the 1970s: the University of Utah. After joining the mathematics department as a teaching fellow in 1978, Farin began what would become a nearly 20-year collaboration >>>

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Melissa Grey is a psychology professor at MCCC, but to understand who she is you have to go beyond her profession. Grey teaches courses like General Psychology, Psychology of Personality and Adjustment, and Social Psychology at MCCC. Before MCCC, she taught at Eastern Michigan University and University of Michigan Flint. Grey said her interest in psychology probably started at home. She remembers listening to her parents and relatives dissect issues. “My parents would often get together with my aunts and talk about a family problem or a social problem, and they would get sort of analytical >>>