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48-hour screen-time experiment: What happens when kids have no limits

March 28, 2018

Every parent I know complains about the battle: Being the screen police with their kids. How much screen time? When can the kids have it? And how do you get them to power off when their time limit is up. The dream is that kids will self-regulate their screen time and turn the devices off after a moderate amount of use. But how far from that reality are we? The Harding family of Menlo Park, California, decided they would try to find out. More »

Having Your Smartphone Nearby Takes a Toll on Your Thinking

March 26, 2018

“Put your phone away” has become a commonplace phrase that is just as often dismissed. Despite wanting to be in the moment, we often do everything within our power to the contrary. We take out our phones to take pictures in the middle of festive family meals, and send text messages or update our social media profiles in the middle of a date or while watching a movie. At the same time, we are often interrupted passively by notifications of emails or phone calls. Clearly, interacting with our smartphones affects our experiences. But can our smartphones affect us even when we aren’t interacting with them—when they are simply nearby? More »

After his wife was killed, a widower reflects on what needs to change: 'It's the guns'

March 12, 2018

Each day, the couple walked together to and from the school where Cynthia Trevillion offered educational support, helping kids overcome obstacles to learning. When she wasn’t teaching, her life revolved around her love for cooking. She biked, gardened as much as she could, and appreciated Chicago’s landscape. “It’s something she enjoyed because she likes to bike,” Trevillion says. “She likes flat terrain.” He often slips into the present tense when he speaks of his wife, as though his grammar has yet to accept this new world without her. But the reminders are there: the paperwork required for social security, the dinners unprepared by her. “The outpouring of love has been overwhelming,” he says. “I’ve received messages from Waldorf schools on six continents. Here in Chicago, there seemed to be a brief opening before we returned to business as usual.” More »

Circle of Life

March 5, 2018

A book on circus skills had been on Jackie and Rick Davis’ to-do list forever. The Temple couple, who taught circus arts to children for decades, had intended to co-author the book, but the timing never quite worked out. Now, the book is out, with Jackie Davis’ name on the cover, and dedicated to Rick, who died in 2015 from brain cancer. She still sees it as a collaborative effort, said Davis. “A lot of the stuff here is Rick’s,” she said, thumbing through an advanced copy of “DIY Circus Lab for Kids,” which will be officially released next week. “It’s of Rick, through Rick.” More »

Rudolf Steiner’s Goetheanum in Switzerland Is a Philosophical Masterpiece

February 26, 2018

When Austrian architect and thinker Rudolf Steiner developed his philosophy of Anthroposophy in Germany at the turn of the 20th century, he soon came to require a place from which to spread its teachings of spirituality and science. Named after German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, whose works Steiner studied and revered, the Goetheanum was therefore born for this purpose on the rising slopes of the Jura Mountains overlooking the town of Dornach, Switzerland. One of the largest reinforced concrete buildings of its time, the Goetheanum has an enigmatic design that combines the charismatic volume of Gaudí, with the zeal of an Orthodox onion dome and the command of a Brutalist masterpiece. More »

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