by Sarah Green | Dec 23, 2016 | News
Dialysis centers are often usually chilly places, and while they often make an attempt at Christmas cheer, it’s not somewhere that anyone wants to be. This might be particularly true in the center at the Veterans Home of Collins in Collins, Missouri. But Tuesday,...
by Sarah Green | Dec 21, 2016 | Student Issues
It’s the time of the year when students all across the U.S. and Canada are trying to cram college applications in with all the end-of-semester projects they have for their classes. Most college application deadlines are between January 1 and February 15, in order to...
by Sarah Green | Dec 19, 2016 | Parent Issues, Student Issues
Letting kids win at games might actually be bad for them. According to new research from Amherst College, rigging a game so that young children always win prevents them from developing the skills necessary to formulate judgments about those skills. Essentially, if...
by Sarah Green | Dec 16, 2016 | News, Student Issues
The yearbook is an iconic part of the high school experience. Many schools have year-round yearbook clubs, staffed by students, building content to be published. They take pictures, write blurbs and short essays about their school, and decide what will be immortalized...
by Sarah Green | Dec 14, 2016 | News, Student Issues
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) affect about 1 percent of the world’s population, and they are caused by a variety of genetic mutations. One of those mutations has now been singled out, and the autism caused by that gene may well be reversible. The mechanical way in...
