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...world first, Xstrata, a $28 billion Swiss global mining company, has agreed to fund an endangered species' recovery. In exchange for spending millions on the marsupial, Xstrata's name will appear on everything wombat: from websites to educational DVDs to shirts worn by wildlife workers. Xstrata execs will also star in documentaries about the northern hairy-nose and speak at media events. Call it the ultimate in green corporate branding...
...always struck by the industry’s repeated willingness to jump in with both feet on whatever new technology comes along: “Online video conferencing? Great, we’ll try it.” “High-definition video? Well, DVDs don’t seem half bad, but, okay, we’ll try that too.” Whatever it is, they’re willing to go along with it. I’m not sure you’d say the same thing about the mainstream content businesses in the United...
Likes: spring rolls, CAPS LOCK, battered sausages, cake, milk, DVDs, beer, pizza, mineral water, his partially deaf grandma, G-rated movies, bowling, time travel, Coke, Coke Zero, banana...
...Marie Evans Schmidt, a research associate at the Center on Media & Child Health at Children's Hospital Boston, studied more than 800 youngsters from birth to 3 years, recording the time they spent watching television or DVDs as reported by their mothers, as well as their performance on language and motor-skill tests. On average, the babies spent 1.2 hr. per day watching TV during their first two years of life, slightly less than the average viewing time reported in previous studies...
...While Schmidt's study found no benefit, it ultimately found no negative effect of watching TV. The researcher offers a few reasons: for one, the children in her study reported less time viewing TV and DVDs than previous surveys of the same-age population; it's possible that her study group did not meet the threshold dose of TV exposure that triggered the negative effects found in Christakis' research. Schmidt's study also stopped following the toddlers at age 3; she acknowledges that some cognitive changes may not occur until children are a few years older...