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National Procrastination Week

I read this morning that it’s National Procrastiantion Week. I don’t know who declared it so, and I imagine it’s only in the US, but LifeHacker has published an excellent post titled, It’s National Procrastination Week: Let’s Celebrate by Getting Stuff Done. It’s full of resources to help you overcome procrastination. You need to click [...]

World’s Greatest Shave

The Leukaemia Foundation World’s Greatest Shave is one of Australia’s biggest annual fundraising events.
The idea is simple. Participants get friends and family to sponsor them to shave or colour their hair. The money that’s raised is used by the Leukaemia Foundation to fund free services to support patients and families living with leukaemias, lymphomas, myeloma [...]

Object Permanence

We’re supposed to develop Object Permanence within the first year of our lives but I sometimes wonder if we’ve all still got a long way to go.
Child development expert and psychologist Jean Piaget coined the phrase Object Permanence to describe the stage in a child’s life when they start to realise that an object still [...]

Barking Mad

I noticed in The West Australian newspaper today that a survey of local councils shows that barking dogs, loud music and construction noise are overwhelmingly the biggest noise issues across the metropolitan area.
Residents have lodged thousands of complaints to councils about noisy nuisances which also include noisy air conditioners and even birds.
In the story Barking [...]

What’s on your bucket list?

Do you have a bucket list? Is there a list of things you’d like to achieve before you die?
The Canadian Press has published a story titled, US teacher, 100, gets overdue degree a day before dying, crossing last item off “bucket list”. It tells the story of Harriet Richardson Ames, a retired US teacher who [...]