Play is essential for young children, including when it comes to their learning
Prioritizing play offers a variety of benefits for children, from helping them grow their vocabulary to managing their big feelings with fewer behavioral problems.
Play also benefits children's cognitive and social and emotional development.
Inside the secret battle to document RSF abuses in Sudan
Under the skies of Sudan’s Darfur region, a grim daily reality unfolds: entire families disappear, villages are burned to the ground, women are subjected to horrific sexual violence, and properties are looted.
GSK heads to Cambridge with long-awaited positive vibes | Nils Pratley
“A vote of confidence in British business,” trumpeted Andy Burnham, seizing the political gift of GSK splashing out £400m on a shiny new research and development centre in Cambridge.
For positive vibes, it definitely beats the early pharma news his predecessor as prime minister received. That was the painful tale of how AstraZeneca, frustrated by indecision in the Treasury, cancelled its intended £450m expansion of a vaccine plant in Speke in Liverpool.
Some parents on benefits to get up to £4,500 if children take on apprenticeships
Some parents on benefits will be given up to £4,500 a year to encourage their children to start apprenticeships, the government has said.
Under plans to encourage young people into work, families will be offered a bursary to replace Universal Credit payments lost by starting jobs.
Five Hacks Every Ultrahuman Ring User Should Know
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Ultrahuman rings, including the new Ring Pro, come with an extensive app. Even before you activate any PowerPlugs (add-on features), there are plenty of graphs and numbers to get lost in. Here are a few hacks you should know to navigate the data deluge and make sure you're getting the most out of its clever hidden features.
Credit the Educators, Not Just the Technology: A Note From Sal Khan
By Sal Khan, Founder and CEO of Khan Academy
We’re seeing more and more schools succeed by leveraging technology thoughtfully. But that success is never about the technology alone. The teachers and administrators deserve most of the credit. And often these technology-enabled schools have other advantages that are hard to replicate. That’s not just a question of giving credit where it’s due. It matters because our real goal is bringing these benefits to classrooms everywhere, and we can’t do that if we underappreciate all that has to happen to see notable success. Credit the technology too heavily and you set expectations that are far more likely to end in failure than in success.
Impact of climate change may be equivalent to 3.3 million years of transformations in tropical vegetation
The tropics cover less than one-third of Earth's surface but are home to more than half of all known species. Forests, savannas, grasslands and deserts: A vast array of environments stretches along the planet's equatorial belt. This diversity, however, is not static. It is the result of millions of years of changes that have reshaped the tropical landscape time and again.
If The AI Singularity Is Here, Where Is The Evidence?
Have we reached the singularity? getty
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI has crossed a historic threshold with machines reaching a point of runaway capability that is beyond human control, but global AI adoption, real-world applications and economic data tell a different story. Altman said earlier this week that humanity has entered the technological singularity, the long imagined point when machine intelligence begins advancing faster than people can reliably predict or direct.
Women's Open: Charley Hull & Lottie Woad offer hope of another home winner at Royal Lytham & St Annes
Charley Hull began the week of the final golf major of the year by convincing her caddie Adam Woodward he had won a lottery prize worth £100,000.
Unfortunately for Woodward, Hull had bought the ticket in a Blackpool joke shop. The only way he can really hit the jackpot is if his boss breaks her major duck at this week's AIG Women's Open.
Online scam centres fuelling human trafficking worldwide, warns UN agency
IOM chief says victims from more than 80 countries are lured into scam centres through fake job offers on social media.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has warned that trafficking people through online scam centres has become one of the world’s “fastest-growing” forms of human trafficking, with victims from more than 80 countries duped into their criminal operations.