“George jumps right into trouble, because he forgot his galoshes.” That’s just one insight from this 1947 American instructional video about “How young children must behave to avoid transmitting germs to one another.” At the end, “they learn that Dutch people are clean.”
Tag: children
A phony force experiment, revolving around children
Centrifugal force, which is (technically) a phony force, is at the center of this experiment about spinning children. The video presentation is of the sort known as “spinning a yarn”: (Thanks to investigator Laura Bassett for bringing this to our attention)
Childish: 2nd-hand looks at brain activity
Some brain scientists use their brains to explain how they think other people’s brains are used. They also use (in addition to their brains) fMRI [functional magnetic resonance imaging], a technique in which complex equipment measures some of the things that happen inside a brain while a person is using that brain. (NOTE: the technique has […]
Kids distinguish improbable from impossible?
A new study suggests that (perhaps unlike certain adults?) most children easily distinguish between the improbable and the impossible. The study is: “Young children discriminate improbable from impossible events in fiction,” Deena Skolnick Weisberg [pictured here, sort of] and David M. Sobel, Cognitive Development (in press). The authors explain: “Can young children discriminate impossible events, which cannot […]