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Baby chicks link certain sounds with shapes, just like humans do
2+ hour, 42+ min ago (626+ words) When people are shown a spiky shape next to a rounded one and asked which shape is called "kiki" and which one is "bouba," people from all kinds of cultures overwhelmingly associate "bouba" with the blob-like shape and "kiki" with…...
SUNY pushes internships to help students and local businesses
2+ week, 2+ day ago (462+ words) there's hope that a new workforce development effort at a university in the Utica-Rome area will encourage more students to put down roots in central New York. State University of New York Chancellor John King visited the campus of SUNY…...
SU's Whitman School launches program to give students hands-on investment experience
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (227+ words) Syracuse University's Whitman School of Management has launched a program that offers students a hands-on startup investment experience. The Orange Business Angel Network will connect students with angel investors who have a history with Syracuse University. Classes begin this semester…...
In Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood, children's entertainment comes with strings
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (393+ words) Puppetworks has served Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood for over 30 years. Many of its current regulars are the grandchildren of early patrons of the theater. Its founder and artistic director, 90-year-old Nicolas Coppola, has been a professional puppeteer since 1954. For just…...
Rising temperatures could have a chilling impact on young children
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (749+ words) Young children really struggle in the heat. Their bodies are too small to cool down by sweating, like adults. And they're wholly reliant on grown-ups to find any kind of relief, be it air conditioning or shade or a cool…...
For the first time this century, child deaths under age 5 will likely rise. Why?
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (659+ words) One of the crowning achievements in global health is at risk of coming undone. Between 2000 and 2020, the number of children who die before they hit their 5th birthday dropped by half " from nearly 10 million deaths a year to under 5 million deaths…...
Kids are highly supervised in physical spaces, but not online. Here's what that does
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (67+ words) NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to researcher Eli Stark-Elster about the imbalance of how adults supervise children in physical spaces versus digitally. - On Air Now Playing WRVO-3: BBC World Service Kids are highly supervised in physical spaces, but not online. Here's…...
Ahead of the holidays, consumer and child advocacy groups warn against AI toys
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (279+ words) A nonprofit children's safety organization, Fairplay, is urging gift givers to avoid buying AI toys for children this holiday season, according to an advisory issued on Thursday. Fairplay, along with other child and consumer advocacy groups, say these toys " playthings…...
Finland's stubbornly low birth rate shows why a population shift may be inevitable
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (1367+ words) Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing the World explores the causes and implications of this trend. On…...
Frankie Focus is fervent about distraction-free schools
4+ mon, 3+ day ago (683+ words) There's a new-ish green, furry supporter meant to help distracted students focus. WAMC's Samantha Simmons took a deep dive to get to know New York's "Frankie Focus." "Frankie Focus," a bespectacled beast who is now the face of the state's…...