November 14, 2008 – 4:49 pm
Joan Acocella discussed the current state of overparenting, aka spoiling, helicopter parenting, hothouse parenting, or death-grip parenting.
Marano thinks that the infant-stimulation craze was a scandal. She accepts the idea of brain plasticity, but she believes that the sculpting goes on for many years past infancy and that its primary arena should be self-stimulation, as the child ventures out into the world. While Mother was driving the kid nuts with the eight-hundredth iteration of “This Little Piggy,” she should have been letting him play on his own. Marano assembles her own arsenal of neurological research, guaranteed to scare the pants off any hovering parent. As children explore their environment by themselves-making decisions, taking chances, coping with any attendant anxiety or frustration-their neurological equipment becomes increasingly sophisticated, Marano says. “Dendrites sprout. Synapses form.” If, on the other hand, children are protected from such trial-and-error learning, their nervous systems “literally shrink.”
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Also tagged Brain Plasticity, Current State, Death Grip, Frustration, Helicopter, Infancy, Infant Stimulation, Joan Acocella, Little Piggy, Marano, Nervous Systems, Neurological Research, Overparenting, Scandal, Sculpting, Self Stimulation, Synapses, Taking Chances, Trial And Error
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September 20, 2008 – 2:30 am
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
It’s been just over a week since we ran a smash-and-grab at Apple’s unveiling of its newest entries to the iPod family, the nano 4G and touch 2G. The devices, both set along an evolutionary (rather than revolutionary) path have certainly been nipped, tucked, and updated — but we wanted to know if they’d been improved at all. For the nano, we’ve seen some iteration of the same device for years now, leaving questions as to how much further you can take a low-end music player, while the touch is another story completely; a handheld which treads that ever-thinning line between entertainment device and micro-computer. Do either of these products hit their marks, or has Apple overextended itself in its pursuit of market saturation? Keep reading to find out.
Continue reading Apple iPod touch 2G and nano 4G: The Engadget Review
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Also tagged 2g, Apple Ipod, Entertainment, Ipod Touch, Market Saturation, Micro Computer, Music Player, Nano 4g, Nbsp, Revolutionary Path, Smash And Grab, Unveiling
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September 18, 2008 – 2:37 am
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
Okay, so this “review” of HTC’s beastly new Touch HD isn’t much of a review, but it offers up a few important snippets of insight — and perhaps more importantly for the visual stimulation-starved among us, a plethora of photography. The reviewer notes that the 800 x 480 display is positively gorgeous, the cam is decent (though autofocus is a tad on the slow side), the latest iteration of TouchFLO 3D running here chugs along with virtually no slowdown, and despite the display and the heavy-duty spec sheet, the darned thing is essentially the same size as an iPhone 3G. Oh, and there’s also a true 3.5mm headphone jack lurking on here, too, which we dare you to find on that HTC in your pocket right now. Makes it all that much harder to hear that it’s launching in the fourth quarter without global HSDPA, doesn’t it?
[Thanks, Steph]
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By trompyx
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Also tagged 5mm, Beastly, Cellphones, Fourth Quarter, Handhelds, Hd, Heavy Duty, Hsdpa, Insight, Iphone, Nbsp, Photography, Plethora, Release Style, Slowdown, Snippets, Spec Sheet, Tad, Visual Stimulation
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