Fitness monitors won’t do the work for you
Fitness trackers are much better at encouraging healthy activity levels when their users set goals, incl. goals catered to specific health needs.
Brain shaped by native language and music
Our brains develop based on stimuli they receive, and some of that includes auditory stimuli, or sounds: music, language, other noises.
No benefit to hands-on learning in college physics?
Physics experiments are hands-on. The pedagogical goal of learning physics may not be served, but certain labs still have value.
Students ask female professors for more favors
Professors get special requests from students a lot, like extra time. Female profs who deny the request are more likely to get complaints.
We expect more of ourselves today, incl. perfection
Meritocracy places a strong need for young people to strive, perform and achieve in modern life; that leads to an increase in perfectionism.
Memristors can benefit our artificial intelligence
Making artificial intelligence that assists in teaching and learning more efficient means using special components both to store data and solve problems.
Coloring is OK, but it’s not really art therapy
Coloring can help relieve stress & make people feel better; art therapists help patients build relationships & grow internally.
Unlike monkeys, we turn competition into cooperation
Games, like life, don't have to be a zero-sum game, as scientists at Ga. State found by looking at primate behavior in monkeys.
Smartphone addiction linked to chemical imbalance
Being "addicted" to a smartphone or the internet can be linked to a chemical imbalance in the brain, new research suggests.
Kids from poorer families may know fewer words
Kids from low-income families are exposed to fewer words, but the fact is, vocabulary remains smaller than peers even after school starts.