Word: mattering
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...Gazans aren't digging for fun: it is a matter directly related to their lives. What does Israel earn from trying to prevent a hungry person from eating? I really hope that these meaningless hostilities will fade. Jiwon Kwak, Seoul
...leading neuroscientists to explore how the brain functions at work. "The reality is you are not doing two tasks that use the stage at any one time," he writes. "You are switching attention between tasks." For optimal use of brain cells, do one thing at a time, no matter how long your to-do list is. Otherwise, he says, "if you do multiple conscious tasks at once, you will experience a big drop-off in accuracy or performance." In other words, put down that cell phone immediately...
...made for the U.S., where Gropius, the Alberses and Moholy-Nagy would also end up as hugely influential teachers and practitioners. The Bauhaus was gone, but its gospel would go on. Decades later, Tom Wolfe would call his lightheartedly reactionary takedown of modernism From Bauhaus to Our House. No matter what you think of the book, you can't say he didn't get the title right...
...were on the same junior-national team,” Mills said of Anastasia Ferdman. “We do have a history, and we know each other...but overall it doesn’t matter who I am fencing...
Finally, there is the gift of humility, which parents need to offer one another. We can fuss and fret and shuttle and shelter, but in the end, what we do may not matter as much as we think. Freakonomics authors Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt analyzed a Department of Education study tracking the progress of kids through fifth grade and found that things like how much parents read to their kids, how much TV kids watch and whether Mom works make little difference. "Frequent museum visits would seem to be no more productive than trips to the grocery store," they...