Thought for the day
51% of preschool children are read to daily, down from 69% in 2013. In the same period, the number of toddlers who watch online video content daily has risen by almost a fifth. The Guardian/Nielsen Book Research
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Does having children make you happy?
Parenthood and happiness are hard to study. One researcher commented, “If you want to understand the causal effect of sleeping pills on somebody’s sleep, you can run placebo trials, but kids can’t be handed out at random to see what effect they have on people”. What is certain is that across the developed world people …
Ducks and democracy
To The Daily Telegraph Here in the US we have a law making it illegal to hunt ducks or geese with more than three shells in one’s shotgun. We want to give them a fighting chance, as it were. A companion law also makes it illegal to hunt those migratory birds with a machine gun, …
Don’t blame Russia for our diseased politics: a different perspective
The recent indictment of 13 Russians for meddling in the 2016 US election has prompted a hysterical reaction from some pundits. One commentator called the cyber plot “the second-worst foreign attack on America in the past decade”, after 9/11; another warned that Russia and America were now engaged in a “virtual war”, lamenting that the …
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Are there now too many graduates?
To The Daily Telegraph How many graduates does our economy really need and how many can it afford? Fifty years ago, only 5% of school-leavers went on to university. Now the figure has soared to almost 50%, the entirely arbitrary target dreamt up by Tony Blair in his early days in office. This target seems …