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• Where did this chimney sweep waltz?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 638
  Please help me identify this scene/sketch. I am haunted by a memory of a scene/sketch from childhood. It was a chimney sweep waltzing with a woman in an elaborate pink satin ballgown in a Victorian-style parlor. This was not Mary Poppins. For years, I thought maybe Id seen it on "The Electric Company" or some such ...
  3 hours ago

• Happy Birthday, Sesame Street

  
  Hoyden About Town — Authority: 135
  As you may have noticed if you’ve used Google recently, this week marks the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street , an educational children’s show that has always attempted to be promote diversity and understanding. While it has not always been perfect — most of the Muppets, unfortunately, are still gendered ...
  4 hours ago

• Fat-loving moms may have taller children

  
  CalorieLab Diet News — Authority: 433
  A study in mice found that moms that were fed a high-fat diet had longer offspring than those that ate a normal diet, and the effect of that diet was seen even into the mom’s grandchildren, a finding researchers expect would also hold true in humans. How the research worked The study, published in the journal ...
  6 hours ago

• Green Books Campaign: Let Me Out! How to enjoy the school run

  
  Green Options — Authority: 147
  Editor’s Note:  This review is part of the Green Books campaign . Today 100 bloggers are reviewing 100 great books printed in an environmentally friendly way. Our goal is to encourage publishers to get greener and readers to take the environment into consideration when purchasing books. This campaign is organized ...
  9 hours ago

• Sesame Street Turned 40

  
  CrossRoads... — Authority: 116
  This popular show for children was premiered on 10th November 1969 and it is the longest running American TV show. I remember watching this show on Fridays (weekly holiday) in school days. There would be only one channel (PTV) and we all know it offered very little for kids to watch. I was never a huge fan of Sesame ...
  10 hours ago

• Handsome: Geekologie-Loving Dino-Shirt Boy

  
  Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome — Authority: 755
  This handsome little devil loves both dinosaurs AND Geekologie. You smell that? Smells like a winner at life! Sure you may argue children under the age of 35 shouldnt be reading this website, but I actually recommend a healthy dose of prenatal Geekologie. See where Im going with this? If you answered, ...
  10 hours ago

• Erector Set

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 638
  Google-Fu fail. I had a toy in the mid 70s that I can best describe as a hydraulic-watermill-waterpump-erector-set. It allowed you to connect a series of clear tubes, mills, and various other pieces to create a crazy pump station that ran water up, down and across the tubes, mills. etc. It could grow to several ...
  11 hours ago

• Cookie Monster and the origin of Om nom nom

  
  The Modern Gal — Authority: 411
  My main man on Sesame Street may have indeed been the originator of the oft-used om nom nom phrase. Come to think of it, he may have had a role in the origins of LOL speak too. Me can has cookie? I posted on this a long time ago, but as a refresher: the always entertaining Om nom nom nom blog . P.S. Happy ...
  12 hours ago

• Further notes on getting your kids to eat their veggies

  
  CalorieLab Diet News — Authority: 433
  The keys are your shopping list and your lifestyle As a follow-up to our recent post on kids and vegetables , here are a couple of additional takes on the subject from various authorities. According to several studies presented at the recent annual Obesity Society meeting, it’s really just this simple and this ...
  13 hours ago

• Sesame Street v.s. Childhood Obesity

  
  Healthhabits — Authority: 127
  Sesame Street has joined the battle against childhood obesity. First, it was Grover getting into the gym and pumping some iron. Then, it was the Cookie Monster kicking his cookie addiction and switching to a diet heavy on fruits and vegetables. Things were looking good in this battle between fit and fat. ...
  14 hours ago

• Teenage Obesity Linked to Increased Risk of MS

  
  Disabled World — Authority: 147
  The study found that women who had a BMI of 30 or larger at age 18 had more than twice the risk of developing MS compared to those with a BMI between 18.5 and 20.9.
  14 hours ago

• 10 Worst Crimes Committed Against Womanity By Toy Companies

  
  Heartless Doll — Authority: 122
  By Kathleen Willcox I often ask myself, which situation is worse: a work environment thats openly hostile to women or one that is covertly so? In the end, generation X and Y have been blessed with the fruits of many generations efforts who fought, polished tooth and nail, to get to a place where its against the law ...
  14 hours ago

• Randomised Evaluation of a Parenting Programme

  
  Geary Behavioural Economics Blog — Authority: 507
  Donal ONeill presented at the economics seminar on Friday. He has a new working paper on an early childhood intervention in Ireland. A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Early Childhood Intervention: Evidence from a Randomised Evaluation of a Parenting Programme by Donal ONeill (October 2009) Abstract: A number of ...
  15 hours ago

• Accidental Baby

  
  MacDoctor — Authority: 547
  I have a great deal of misgiving about the attempt of a couple to claim under ACC for the accident of their daughter’s birth. Their daughter’s spina bifida (open spine at birth) was not discovered on ultrasound and, as the parents insist that they would have aborted her, if they had known, they are trying to claim ...
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• New Study: Daily PE Key to Improving Health

  
  Peaceful Playgrounds — Authority: 123
  School-based physical education plays a key role in curbing obesity and improving fitness among adolescents from low-income communities, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and UC Berkeley. The study, which identifies opportunities for adolescents to improve ...
  18 hours ago

• You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas by Augusten Burroughs

  
  The Girl from the Ghetto — Authority: 120
    I’ve been in love with Augusten Burroughs for a long, long time.  It started off innocently enough; his first book Running with Scissors kept flirting with me by winking at me every time I passed it in Borders.  I kept reading fantastic reviews of it and I knew  it was going to be a book I’d ...
  20 hours ago

• The Rescued: Rapacious Partners

  
  The White Knight Syndrome — Authority: 91
  Initially, the covertly predatory style of rapacious partners may lead you to believe that you have found paradise in their arms, but sooner or later you feel like a victim. Desperate for nurturing and security, the rapacious partner manipulates to get what she needs, at times, through being irresistibly seductive. ...
  20 hours ago

• The Malawi government’s program to cut childhood pneumonia deaths

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 159
  (Public Library of Science) In this week’s PLoS Medicine, Penelope Enarson (International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Child Health Lung Division, Paris, France) and colleagues in Malawi and South [...]
  21 hours ago

• Rhabdomyosarcoma Fast-Growing & Highly Malignant Cancer in Child’s Body

  
  UwidoNews - Submitted news — Authority: 510
  Warning Signs of Childhood Cancer Rhabdomyosarcoma is a fast-growing, highly malignant tumor which accounts for over half of the soft tissue sarcomas in children
  23 hours ago

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