formal, eclectic, iconoclastic, autodidactic – all the ways we learn
“If it takes color-coding or ponies and hairdressers to get girls playing with Lego, I’ll put up with it, at least for now, because it’s just so good for little girls’ brains,” says Lise Eliot. A neuroscientist at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in Chicago, Eliot is the author of Pink Brain Blue Brain, a 2009 survey of hundreds of scientific papers on gender differences in children
15 interesting things.
It’s Time: new ad from Get Up.
Joe Paterno knowingly looked the other way when he could have gone to the police to get justice for raped children. Thousands of people are defending him.
Do fat dads lead to fat kids?
*headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk*
As Dee asks on void-star.net – Best Colouring book ever?
When one particular question on an exam paper is literally incomprehensible for the whole class when they compare notes afterwards – not just one or two students, but every single one of them agreed that they had no idea what the jargon used in the question even meant – is it the students’ problem that nobody understands the question, or is it the teacher’s problem that nobody understood the question?
We think the rich are too rich. But they’re even richer..
An 11 year old put FN in his place.
Hoyden About Town 