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The Link Between Kids Who Walk or Bike to School and Concentration

The Link Between Kids Who Walk or Bike to School and Concentration

Sarah Goodyear:

According to the results of a Danish study released late last year, my Dutch friends are giving their daughter a less tangible but more lasting gift along with that bicycle: the ability to concentrate better. The survey looked at nearly 20,000 Danish kids between the ages of 5 and 19. It found that kids who cycled or walked to school, rather than traveling by car or public transportation, performed measurably better on tasks demanding concentration, such as solving puzzles, and that the effects lasted for up to four hours after they got to school.

I’ll bet this link is present in people who bike or walk to work too.

by Jonathan Frei

Seeing Art

Here’s what you do. Click the Wikipaintings random link over and over. In fact, open 20 new tabs in the background. Now you’ve generated your own little art gallery.

Take some time to explore through the paintings. Click through to the artist page to learn more about the personalities behind the canvas. Click the style link to learn more about the style and find more paintings of that era and style.

Wiki paintings goal is to create the most “high-quality, most complete and well-structured online repository of fine art.”

We hope to make classical art a little more accessible and comprehensible, and also want to provide a new form of interaction between contemporary artists and their audience. In the future we plan to cover the entire history of art —- from cave artworks to the new talents of today.

Visiting art museums isn’t the only way to experience your artistic heritage.

by Jonathan Frei