Dispensary Corner 03 Nov 10
November 3, 2010
TECHNOLOGY saves the day.
A 12-year old US girl has
evaded the clutches of a would-be
kidnapper via the use of her iPod.
According to reports, the girl
was approached by a man in a
van whilst she waited for her mum
to pick her up after school.
The man demanded the girl get
into his van.
The quick thinking tween then
reportedly pulled her iPod out of
her pocket and held it to her ear,
pretending to call the police- at
which point the man drove off.
HOURS of repetition for nothing?
A recent study published in
Psychological Science has found
that DVDs designed to give infants
a learning boost, may not work.
To reach their conclusions,
researchers looked at 96 families
with children aged between 12
and 18 months, half of which
were given a top selling infant
learning DVD to watch several
times a week, whilst parents of
the infants in the other group
were instructed to try to teach
them words in the DVD through
everyday experiences.
After a month, the infants were
tested to see which group learned
more words, with the results
clocking no difference between
those that watched the DVD and
those that did not.
The researchers did however
note that parents who enjoyed the
DVD were more likely to think
their child had learnt from it than
parents who disliked the DVD.
INSOMNIA is good.
A Melbourne man, Demitrios
Bisbelis, has narrowly escaped
death, after his insomnia caused
him to leave his bed not long
before a car smashed through his
bedroom wall.
“My bed’s been disintegrated..
it’s completely shattered,” a
shocked Bisbelis told media.
“I’m sure I wouldn’t have made
it had I been in bed at that
time,” he added.
According to reports the car
crashed after it hit a kerb and
became airborne (the driver
survived with only minor injuries).
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