Archive for August 2023
Why Your Tongue Sticks Out When You Thread a Needle
Ever wonder why your tongue sticks out when you thread a needle? To find out why (and understand rock singer Joe Cocker’s wild gesticulations), see my article in Quanta Magazine One day, while threading a needle to sew a button, I noticed that my tongue was sticking out. The same thing happened later, as…
Read MoreCOVID-19 School Closures Harmed Children’s Mental Health
There has been much conjecture about possible detrimental long-term consequences of school closures on young children and adolescents, but now a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports provides convincing evidence that the mental health of school children was impaired by school closures during the pandemic. The study surveyed 907 adolescents and their parents in…
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