Sunday, September 15, 2013

Read With Your Children, Not to Them

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 Research has found that reading with young children and engaging them can make a positive impact on the child's future and their fami...
Monday, August 19, 2013

The importance of over learning

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“The message from this study is that in order to perform with less effort, keep on practicing, even after it seems the task has been lear...
Friday, July 19, 2013

Being a Lifelong Bookworm May Keep You Sharp in Old Age

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To keep their bodies running at peak performance, people often hit the gym, pounding away at the treadmill to strengthen muscles and build...

The Science of Smart: Eight Ways Of Looking At Intelligence

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In “Thirteen Ways of Looking At A Blackbird,” poet Wallace Stevens takes something familiar—an ordinary black bird—and by looking at it fr...
Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Jobs got it right – how fast, intuitive thinking results in harmful behavior

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Why good deeds don’t go unpunished [Via  Ars Technica ] From an early age, we are taught that cooperation, generosity, and altruism ...

7 WAYS TO SHARPEN YOUR MEMORY

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1. Be conscious of the limits of your  working memory —the mental holding area that contains the facts and concepts you're thinking abo...
Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Developing Character, Courage & College Readiness

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The high school day starts with  Humane Letters , a two hour Socratic seminar where students read great books and the founding documents. ...