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Many parents lose sleep over the riddle of their children's social life. What makes one child popular and another scorned? How can parents best foster social skills? What should a kid be taught about dealing with bullies, and when should a parent step in? These ques-tions are as old as families, but they're taking new form and fresh urgency in an era when schoolyard arguments too often get resolved with guns. A new book--Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children (Ballantine)--delves into these mysteries with uncommon sensitivity and intelligence...
Nowadays every psychology student is taught that James and Piaget were wrong. From their earliest months, in fact, children interpret the world as a real and predictable place. It's the parents of an infant who experience the world as a blooming, buzzing confusion, says one psychologist. This new understanding is largely the legacy of Harvard psychologist Elizabeth Spelke...
...usual, Spergel knew very little when he began. So, he says, "I got a book and taught myself optics." The result: a revolutionary idea for a telescope that could spot a dim planet in the glare of a bright star, potentially saving NASA billions of dollars and advancing the search for undiscovered planets as much as a decade. "I love exploring the frontiers of science," says Spergel. "I try to choose projects where the answers will be exciting not only for my colleagues but also for everybody else...
...According to Krogh, the Danish tradition of designers starting out as cabinetmakers has been going out of fashion recently. Now potential designers generally go directly from high school to design school, where they are taught basic concepts from the outset. "I still feel we are building on the cabinetmaker tradition, with a close relationship to the material," says Krogh. "We're also trying to find new expressions such as form and aesthetic aspects...
...French frontier, watchmaking and its attendant industries were the sole employers for generations. It was here - in the early 1700s - that Daniel Jeanrichard opened the region's first watchmaking workshop, sharing his skills with his seven children and a handful of apprentices. Jeanrichard is a legendary figure, a self-taught watchmaker who invented the first specialized watchmaking machinery. He farmed out part of his production to local peasants, who were only too pleased to have an extra source of income to tide them over the long winter months they spent snowed into their chalets...