16 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
The Eagerness of Medical Sciences are Detrimental
And it has been sarcastically said, that there is a wide difference between a good physician and a bad one, but a small difference between a good physician and no physician at all; by which it is meant to insinuate, that the mischievous officiousness of art does commonly more than counterbalance any benefit derivable from it. The meddlesome nature of physicians means there is a small difference between having one and not having one help you.
28 JUL 2011 by ideonexus
Children With Self-Control Do Better in Life
A healthy, well-adjusted preschooler sits down at a table in front of two giant, freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. It’s not a kitchen table—it’s Walter Mischel’s Stanford lab during the late 1960s. The smell is heavenly. “You see these cookies?” Mischel says. “You can eat just one of them right now if you want, but if you wait, you can eat both. I have to go away for five minutes. If I return and you have not eaten anything, I will let you have bothcookies. If you eat on...Children who can resist eating a cookie long enough to be rewarded with a second one have much higher SAT scores.