TED radio hour: What is beauty? A really lovely listen.

Played 0 times.

Stephen Fry on twitter via Q, cbc radio.

NPR -  Children’s play has becomes increasingly scripted, limiting their ability or tendency towards improvised, imaginative play. This then effects their development of executive functions including their ability to self-regulate. “Kids with good self-regulation are able to control their emotions and behavior, resist impulses, and exert self-control and discipline.”

Played 10 times.

wow. These stories aired on NPR are incredible. This Good article features two animated stories from StoryCorps, whose mission is to provide Americans with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of [their] lives.

Go listen and watch. One is a boy with Asperger’s interviewing his mom about their relationship and the other is an old couple, the husband on his deathbed, as much in love as the day they met.