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Solving puzzles makes you a better person. You learn flexibility of thinking, and you learn to think practically. I think Mr. Miyamoto has a point: often in math class, you're taught formulas and maybe you don't fully understand the formulas, you're just going through the paces, these artificial things you've learned. But when you finish a puzzle, you really have a complete understanding of what you did. You understand the mathematics better, and you feel prouder of yourself for having figured it out from start to finish...
...center of executive functions - and what Pagani and others call "effortful control" - are just developing. The better the brain can be trained at this stage, the better it performs later in life. Pagani cites a 2007 study published in the journal Science that showed that simple attention-boosting training taught in kindergarten improved focus and concentration in later years. "You can introduce a cost-effective program and reap enormous benefits," she says...
...evolution skeptics have reason to cheer as well, because the celebration of Darwin’s work among scientists and in the media will likely reignite the debate over whether evolution or creationism should be taught in schools. Creationists will point out that the Darwin love-fest among scientists amounts to little more than devotion to a religious leader, reinforcing the views of the nearly half of Americans who don’t believe in evolution anyway. The display in the Science Center prepared by the UK-based Darwin 200 in February seemed to anticipate this debate...
...appointed rector of the Pontifical North American College in Rome, where he also taught at Pontifical Gregorian University and the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas...
Last year, Kim moved to Washington, D.C., where he served as the Director of Planning, Policy, and Finance at the E.L. Haynes Public Charter School. He and the school’s founder, Jennifer C. Niles, met when she taught at Phillips Academy, where Kim attended high school. The two felt such a strong professional affinity that Niles held a position open for him when she opened the charter school, said Emmeline K. Owyang ’93, one of Kim’s sisters...