It took 400 scientists to come up with this overstated version of "stop and smell the roses"?
Simple activities such as gardening or mending a bicycle can protect mental health and help people to lead more fulfilled and productive lives, a panel of scientists has found.
We're a little behind here in Indiana. We're still debating the merits of all-day kindergarten, and elsewhere they're already on to the universal-preschool debate:
Advocates argue that public investments in early education will pay dividends over the long term. Critics point out that the evidence from states that have universal preschool programs shows that whatever benefits kids receive from those programs fade out by the fourth grade.
You remember the woman arrested for cursing at her toilet because her neighbor, an off-duty cop, overheard her and was "offended"? I think I may even have mentioned it here. There is justice in the case:
When Dawn Herb's toilet overflowed, it cost her nothing to fix.
Yesterday, I (half) jokingly said that maybe we ought to put deadbeat parents on billboards as a means of deterrence. Here's a jurisdiction with an online version of the same idea:
Nassau County took down its online "Wall of Shame" Tuesday, and from now on will post only the names and photos of those who are convicted of drunken driving, said County Executive Thomas Suozzi.
If I wrote this, you'd consider it just another rant from a libertarian-leaning crank. But it's the opening of a Washington Post editorial:
You know its' really bad when . . .
Wal-Mart Stores Inc's U.S. customers, increasingly worried about their own financial security, are waiting until they get their paychecks to buy even the most basic necessities, the retailer's U.S. division head said on Tuesday.
It's the end of the world! I knew it was coming. But I'll be ready for it with my slop-in-a-waterproof-bucket emergency food supply -- 275 servings for $84.99! Yum!
Let's see if I have this straight. "Ethnic whites" who feel discriminated against -- not are discriminated against necessarily but feel so -- are much more likely to be obese than ethnic whites who do not feel discriminated against. This connection between perceived discrimination and obesity is not present among blacks, Hispanics or "other whites." This is because:
Milton Friedman has been dead for two years, but he still makes more sense of the current economic crisis than anybody else:
Would Milton have seen the crisis as a setback for capitalism?
Only in the short term.
We baby boomers always knew we'd make a difference in the end:
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Beyond the convention center filled with glistening hearses, beyond the rows of perfectly arranged caskets and bottles of embalming fluid, funeral directors await perhaps their greatest windfall ever: The death of the baby boom generation.
