Dailyish Study Roundup – Exercise, Color blindness

Dailyish Study Roundup lists studies and news I find important to life as a parent. Daily is more of a goal…

• What sort of exercise makes us smarter? – Study finds mice on wheels, an exercise they enjoy, have different brain changes than mice who run on little treadmills that are controlled by the scientists.
• Wikipedia’s entry on Pancreatic cancer – This was very informative to me.
• Good Night and Tough Luck – This is hilarious. Given that I just slept through the night for the first time in 4 years, I found it especially funny:

Next up: a visitor from the kids’ room. They start all sweet and cuddly, but their little bodies become more brazen by the minute.

• Gene therapy cures color blindness in monkeys – They did a little gene therapy in their eyes, which they say they won’t be doing in humans any time soon.
• A new way to teach science (Preview) – Oh am I looking forward to this! Just reading this line hooked me:

Research shows that children learn best when they regularly revisit topics, moving from basic to sophisticated views. In keeping with this knowledge, education experts advocate curricula in which students deepen their understanding of a topic—and hone their abilities to practice science—across many grades.