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The Handiest Tool in the World
The Huffington Post: Long before we had inches and centimeters, we had hands. The breadth of a man’s hand was the metric of choice at least as far back as ancient Egypt, and this bodily
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How Scientists and Doctors Use Baby-Friendly Tricks to Study Infants
ABC: For all the impressive advancements in medical technology, researchers and scientists still face a daunting challenge when they study the habits of the adorable but uncommunicative subjects called human infants. In order to study
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Hand-Wringing Over Handwriting
Pacific Standard: If you want to gauge in earnest just how divorced education has become from the simple practice of handwriting, here is an experiment. On the first day of a college course in elementary
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The Nature of Language Acquisition
On a daily basis, infants and toddlers encounter a plethora of items ranging from animals to appliances their parents use. Despite their limited abilities to process information, even very young children are remarkably capable of
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Why ‘Pinocchio’ May Not Teach Kids Honesty
Live Science: For parents looking to teach their children a lesson about honesty, a new study suggests “George Washington and the Cherry Tree” is a more useful morality tale than “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” Stories touting
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What If You Could Just ‘Forget’ to Bite Your Nails?
New York Magazine: A bad habit can feel so automatic that it can be hard to even realize you’re doing it, which makes quitting the behavior feel impossible. But what if you could just will
