Danial Kheirikhah, a cleanly actor, shows, in this video how to wash one’s hands with the aid of a recording of a symphony orchestra: An Earlier Experiment with Kids A related—but not identical—technique has previously been shown to have some degree of merit for children. For details about that, see the study “The Effects of […]
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A look back at the research showing kids at malls mostly don’t like Santa
It’s nearly Christmas, a good time to look back at the research showing kids at malls mostly don’t like Santa Claus.
Dogs ‘n kids ‘n brain-related pictures
Maybe dogs and kids are a key, arriving at last, to understanding how the brain thinks thoughts and feels emotions. Maybe. It’s still essentially a mystery how the brain (which has been called “the most complex object in the universe“) does most of what it does. The mystery is especially deep about how — specifically — […]
Research on kids’ indifference to, or fear of, Santa Claus
Professor John Trinkaus did several studies documenting the prevalence of indifference or fear among kids visiting Santa Claus in a shopping mall, we remind you. Professor Trinkaus was awarded the 2003 Ig Nobel Prize in literature for for meticulously collecting data and publishing more than 80 detailed academic reports about things that annoyed him (such as: What […]
Astronomical objects & human children
University of Tel Aviv astronomer Alon Retter alerts us to his provocative paper positing a mathematical similarity between astronomical objects and human children. Retter’s monography is another example of the spectacular nature of many research papers in the small, new viXra depository (profiled here recently; see “Alternate everything: the joy of viXra“) as compared to […]