“A Visual Guide To 2024’s Rare Dual [Cicada] Appearance”
“Billions of bugs are emerging from the soil across a large swath of the United States in a natural phenomenon last witnessed in 1803. It involves two broods, or groups, of periodical cicadas, insects with relatively long life cycles that show up after a certain interval. The Northern Illinois brood spends 17 years underground before […]
“Why Is Medieval Art So Weird?”
On The Educational Benefit Of Board Games
“Surgeon General Says 13 Is ‘Too Early’ To Join Social Media”
“Reopen Schools With A ‘Golden Age Of Play’”
“For older middle schoolers and high schoolers, recess and free play can take the form of frequent break times, self-determined passion projects and learning to solve real problems in their communities. As the American Academy of Pediatrics has noted, Cognitive processing and academic performance depend on regular breaks from concentrated classroom work. This applies equally to adolescents […]
“Laser Mapping Reveals Largest And Oldest Mayan Temple”
Animal Life Discovered That Does Not Breathe Oxygen
In Praise Of Praise
“The higher the ratio between the two — the more a teacher praised and the less they scolded — the better kids stayed focused on their lessons.”
A Case For Playing Video Games With Our Kids
Do I see a long future of mother-son video game nights ahead? Not really… I’ll keep playing for the practical benefits and the emotional ones, too. Taking part in another’s pleasure, no matter how anodyne or indecipherable that pleasure may feel to us, is revelatory. We learn what makes them tick, and we learn what […]
More Screen Time Does Appear To Correlate With Adverse Development
“The researchers found that greater screen time at 24 months was associated with poorer performance on developmental screening tests at 36 months, and greater screen time at 36 months was associated with lower scores on developmental screening tests at 60 months.”