Children learn best during real-time interaction, new study finds By Kim Fischer
It’s good news for grandparents across the country and the world: Young children readily learn new words in conversations through live video chat technology,…
September, 2013
Teaching girls By Andrew Fuller
Girl Smarts The variability between girls can challenge teachers. This variability is often concealed, as girls often like to highlight their similarities with…
Building Hope for the Future By Dorothy Hoddinott
Positive Schools Conference May 2013 Speaker: Dorothy Hoddinott, Principal, Holroyd High School I am going to talk today about some the challenges refugee and…
Scientists create never-before-seen light-saber-like matter (Great read for STARWARS fans)
Harvard and MIT scientists are challenging the conventional wisdom about light, and they didn’t need to go to a galaxy far, far away to…
Adolescent Learning By Andrew Fuller
Ideally you would like to have a brain that has the organisational skills of Henry Ford, the planning skills of Hilary Clinton, the humour…
The good news: there’s a new natural antibiotic. The bad news: it’s made of termite poop nest material
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — For some 50 years, scientists have tried — but failed — to find a way to use microbes as a means…
Happiness and the patterns of life: a study of geolocated tweets
The patterns of life exhibited by large populations have been described and modeled both as a basic science exercise and for a range of…
Positive emotion influences a depressive-to-happy state, increases life satisfaction
By combining the experience of self-reported positive and negative emotions among 1,400 US-residents, researchers created four affective profiles which they then used to discern…
Omega-3s linked to lower depression risk in new study
May A. Beydoun 5,*, Marie T. Fanelli Kuczmarski 6, Hind A. Beydoun 7, Joseph R. Hibbeln 8, Michele K. Evans 5, and Alan B….
Children benefit from positive peer influence in after-school programs
Children in afterschool programs who have a sense of connectedness with their peers are less likely to report emotional problems, according to Penn State…