“Research has shown time and again that children need opportunities to move in class. Memory and movement are linked, and the body is a tool of learning, not a roadblock to or a detour away from it.”
Category: ideas
Culture’s Having A ‘Girl’ Moment. But What Does It Mean?
“To be called ‘just a girl’ may be diminishment, but to call yourself ‘still a girl,’ can be empowerment, laying claim to the unencumbered liberties of youth. As Gloria Steinem likes to remind us, women lose power as they age. The persistence of girlhood can be a battle cry.”
If There’s No Such Thing As Free Will, Should We Just Pretend There Is?
“If moral responsibility depends on faith in our own agency, then as belief in determinism spreads, will we become morally irresponsible? And if we increasingly see belief in free will as a delusion, what will happen to all those institutions that are based on it?”
Can Redesigning Neighborhoods Save Barcelona From Cars And Pollution?
“The objectives are ambitious; by implementing these strategies at once, the city wants to reduce car use by 21% over the next two years and increase mobility by foot, bike and public transport.”
Can Your Tech Really Ruin Your Museum Experience?
“Most museums, especially art museums, are trying to balance this intent that they have about creating a really quiet or an engaged, almost religious commune with the art — with this real strong need to be relevant to modern audiences, to millennial audiences, to attract new audiences.”
Consciousness Isn’t A Great Mystery, It’s Just A Physical Process
“It’s the most familiar thing there is, whether it’s experience of emotion, pain, understanding what someone is saying, seeing, hearing, touching, tasting or feeling. It is in fact the only thing in the universe whose ultimate intrinsic nature we can claim to know. It is utterly unmysterious. The nature of physical stuff, by contrast, is deeply mysterious.”
What RuPaul’s Drag Shows Teach Us About Performance And The Self
“This rhetoric of self-love as a form of self-care has always been essential in the world of drag.”
Is There No Accounting For Taste? The Complex Psychology Of Why People Like Things
Tom Vanderbilt, author of the new book You May Also Like, says that taste is partly “a way of filtering the world, of ordering information” and partly “another form of social learning” – but “always a mixture of exposure, of culture, of a person’s personality. And none of these are particularly static or fixed.”
Science Fiction Appears To Be Converging With, Well, Now
“The possibility that sci-fi could be breaking in favor of the near-future is especially surprising, given that prophetic boldness has often been seen as one of the genre’s signal features. If, as the critic Northrop Frye has argued, the job of science fiction has been ‘to imagine what life would be like on a plane as far above us as we are above savagery,’ what does it mean that so much recent sci-fi has been taking place on a plane that’s relatively proximate to ours?”
So, With A New Mayor In London, That Whole Garden Bridge Thing Is In Serious Trouble
“The new mayor’s intervention could derail a project that has attracted considerable criticism. The proposed bridge has secured vast sums of public money despite being initially promoted as entirely private-funded. It has recently been bedevilled by accusations that its designer was selected before the actual tender process began.”