Several years ago, I admitted my lack of appreciation regarding most abstract art. That voice in my head often says, "a child could have done that." And now this proposition has been tested. The result: People usually, but not overwhelmingly prefer the abstract art of professional artists to that done by children (and art done by animals). The results were reported by Discover Magazine.
The urge to start molding one's trophy child starts earlier than I had thought.
A Manhattan woman has sued a $19,000-a-year preschool her daughter attended, arguing that the program failed to adequately prepare her daughter for the test required to enter New York City’s hypercompetitive private school system.
It's pretty amazing what one can do when one has no choices. This Atlantic article tells the story of a Soviet doctor who removed his own appendix in Antarctica in 1961.
I've feeling a big stretched out these days, often wondering how I'm going to get everything done. In the midst of this, I noticed this article by Heidi Grant Halvorson in the Harvard Business Review. She offers nine things that successful people do differently, and I do like this list.