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Ed: Can Exercise Make Kids Smarter? - NYTimes.com: "The two studies did not
directly overlap, but the researchers, in their separate reports, noted that the
hippocampus and basal ganglia regions interact in the human brain, structurally
and functionally. Together they allow some of the most intricate thinking. If
exercise is responsible for increasing the size of these regions and
strengthening the connection between them, being fit may “enhance
neurocognition” in young people, the authors concluded.
These findings arrive at an important time. For budgetary and
administrative reasons, school boards are curtailing physical education, while
on their own, children grow increasingly sluggish. Recent statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention show that roughly a quarter of children participate in zero physical
activity outside of school."
BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse
I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.
As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........
Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......
Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......
How did I get here from there?
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Phys Ed: Can Exercise Make Kids Smarter? - NYTimes.com
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"One thing I like about the Digital age: having the dictionary at my fingertips, how easy it is to look up unfamiliar words as I go along reading."
"At least....... until, I played my first game of SCRABBLE on the internet. Wow! I had no idea you could spell so many words with seven letters every time."
"Now I feel pressured to catch up!"
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