Random articles!

[conuly]

Many of these are old, I'm sorry to say, but they're still interesting.

First - surprise! If you give kids low-sugar cereal (or, let's extrapolate, other healthy food options) they'll eat it!

Gosh I'm so amazed.

Here's this creepy article about this group, Cadets for Christ.

Study shows post-9/11 security zones blight landscape

Similarly, study shows that walkable neighborhoods are "richer in social capital". I think I got both those links off of FRK at one point.

Here's an article about the TV battle for toddlers/preschoolers. If the average child between ages 2 and 5 watches 32 hours of TV a week (32????) that's, what, 4.5 hours a day? That's a third of their waking life! And that's the average - plenty of kids aren't allowed nearly that much television, so they must have counterparts who watch, like, all the time.

Comments

OT:

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Hey, all the others have gotten their Christmas boxen (including the dude in Canada). Any sign of it yet, or are you just busy writing about other things?

Re: OT:

[conuly]

Don't seem to have gotten it, and I've been keeping an eye out!

But our mail service absolutely sucks.