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RadioLab-

RadioLab.org – Your Future in a Marshmallow 

• One marshmallow now or two later with kids under 4
• No distraction in the room, isolation chamber
• Fist girl ate it after a few minutes, gave into her impulses
• Boy kicks table and freaks out the entire time, he still made it through the 20 minutes
• Boy is licking it and puts it back on the tray, some kids will try and cheat or get around it
• Once kids reach the age of age of 4 they get signifigantly 
• Kids lasted 7-8 mins on average
• Seemed to be a pattern, checked SAT scores and marshmallows and there was a correlation
• 210 SAT score difference between someone who waited 1 minute vs 20 minutes
• Kids who waited ended up as nice kids, respectful, successful kids
• Kids who didn’t ended up as trouble kids

This American Life-

Back to School 

• Cognitive development, is what schools emphasize now. That’s the current understanding
• Now it’s not just cognitive skills like math and IQ. Nobel prize winning james heckman puts together these groups together full of psychologists and economists
• He made a study, GED vs High School dropouts but highschool graduates are doing the best
• What skills did GED students not have and graduates did?
• Schools based everything off of skills you can get quantitative data for like math or english instead of basic things.
• Marshmallow test, took 4 year olds into room, if you want one you ring a bell, if you wait you get two. Huge correlation between success and how long they waited.
• Stress stops kids from non cognitive abilities. Poor communities don’t do worse because of money but of the stress they have.
• Kids who are better off don’t have the same stress as a poor kid.
• If you had a rough childhood you are 12 times more likely to commit suicide and 3 times more likely to get a heart disease. 
• When faced with fear your cognitive function shuts off and you get a fight or flight, emergency response. When said fear is constant it creates constant pathways in a kids brain, the stress will stay.
• If you’re in this fight or flight mode, you literally can’t learn. Your brain just shuts off and you go into a more primative state of mind.
• If you had 4 tragic events as a kid that would stress you out, you are 32 times more likely to have behavior problems in school.
• If mama rats lick baby rats for their fisrt weeks of life if they never see them again, that reduction of nervousness will help them for the rest of their lives.
• The United States has the highest dropout rate in the world

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How to stay safe on the internet:

https://www.missingkids.org/netsmartz/videos#middleandhighschool

Notes:

• Think about your online footprint, who will see it, what will they think?
• Don’t post things you’ll regret in the future
• Online choices can have offline implications
• Be careful about what you share online, it could end up anywhere
• It doesn’t take very long for a text message or online content to travel. Something that you regret saying now could be all over your school in a matter of minutes.
• Respect others online
• Never share your password
• Think before you post something, it could be used against you.
• Don”t give anyone online your personal info!

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Can you hear this?

• • • Hearing Test: noiseaddicts.com
    • -8,000 Hz should be easily heard by everyone with normal hearing
      -12,000 Hz is hard for anyone over 50 years of age to hear
    • Sound Levels: makeitlouder.com

Listen Smart – Safely Handling the Power of Sound –

• • • Goal: Listen to music in a way that does not harm you but enriches you
    • Sound is measured is decibels
    • You shouldn’t be in 125 decibels or higher , called the threshold of pain
    • Rock concerts can get up to 150 decibels
    • You don’t have to be old to get hearing loss
    • 10%-20% of highschoolers have hearing damage
    • A third of hearing loss is related to noise
    • You have hair cells deep in your ear that you’re born with and never grow back, if you listen to loud music and sounds then it can kill these hair cells and you’ll lose your hearing
    • There’s no cure to hearing loss
    • Earplugs don’t change the quality of sounds, only the volume

Audio Career Tips –

soundadvice.info

• • • You need to be responsible of your own hearing in the workplace, you need to know your limits.
    • Everyone involved in music and entertainment has a responsibility to help with noise management.
    • If you play in an orchestra you are exposed to loud noises even if you’re in the pit or on or off stage
    • Lost of people in the live music industry struggle with permanent
    • If you work in or around a sound studio you have to be careful and perform a noise risk assessment, musicians and technicians are exposed to high levels of noise.
    • If are a teacher for music at a school or college establish whether your employees are at risk, perform a noise risk assessment
    • If you work at a pub or bar with loud music playing being played establish if you or your coworkers are at risk. This happens because you are exposed to loud levels of sound for a very long exposure of time
    • If you’re a member of a marching band you get exposed to very high levels of noise. If you are you can get permanent hearing damage.