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Yearly Archives: 2017
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Your Brain Is Like a Computer, take 357
Because brains are so complicated, people who explain them routinely search for analogies. Your brain…
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No Homework in the Orchard
The Washington Post reports on [edit] Orchard School in South Burlington, VT, [a PK-5 school…
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The Benefits (?) of Overlearning
I’m reviewing the vocabulary I learned in today’s Spanish class. The last time I went…
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Autism Speaks…about Genes
Some time ago, I linked to an article about varieties of ADHD diagnoses. A recent…
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Brain Wandering
We’ve posted quite frequently about mind-wandering on this blog (here, here, and here — to pick…
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Early Education Program Evaluation: “Differential Susceptibility” to Success
Show me the Money As most parents, teachers, and education policy folks know well, early…
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The Misleading Headline of the Week…and What to Do About...
Scientific American Mind has entitled this brief piece “Too Much Emotional Intelligence is a Bad…
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Unselfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-about-me World by...
Children and adolescents with greater empathy tend to be happier, more successful, more resilient, and…
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Political Affiliation and Trust in Science
Over at the Cultural Cognition Project, Dan Kahan has offered a fascinating post about the relationship…