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...Children who play a musical instrument perform better on tests of motor, auditory, vocabulary, and non-verbal reasoning skills, according to a study by Harvard researchers released last month. The study, which was led by co-principal investigators Gottfried Schlaug, an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Ellen Winner, a professor of psychology at Boston College and a senior research associate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, tested a group of 59 musicians and non-musicians ranging from eight to eleven years old. The tests showed that the children who had played piano...
...breakthroughs outweighs their substance. Given all the problems in the world, do we really need a tee shirt with animated dancing hamsters printed on it? In some sense, it’s reprehensible that we could reach such dizzying heights in optics in the same world where millions of children die each year of malaria...
...film is full of slightly weird children, plus a certain amount of sexual tension - you may be an in-law, but that doesn't necessarily mean you're sexually uninteresting to someone else in the crowded family manse - but none of this turns A Christmas Tale into a farce. Desplechin is aware of the humorous cross-currents in the film, but he's not out to exploit them. He's a more serious filmmaker than that, interested in exploring the wayward, occasionally inexplicable tensions of a group bound together more by the accidents of birth than by any true communality...
...have no such excuse. We can plead neither the immaturity of children, nor the cynicism of adults, nor the incredible self-aggrandizement of Machiavellian world leaders. Not now—not yet. Extracurricular activities in college are never necessary to success in life, but rather a welcome distraction from it. At Harvard, they may be where the next generation of elites practices changing the world—but it is still only practice. And if that elite is so concerned about winning now, shouldn’t we all worry about what it will one day bring...
...organizer. He brings years of not just talking about his faith from a pulpit but also doing it," says Strider. The worship style and theology of Methodists isn't terribly different from what you're used to in the UCC denomination. And, Strider notes, there are a lot of children's programs at Metropolitan for Sasha and Malia...