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The article offers five engaging activities for children to do at home using common household items. It also discusses the importance of minimal setup, creativity, and sustaining children's interest through activities like creating trails, making spider webs, drawing with fabrics, aiming games, and bath time scavenger hunts.

In the postwar years, the top quarter of New York Stock Exchange common stocks has, on average, outperformedd the bottom quarter by at least 35.5% each year. Cross-sectional return variation tends to increase in strong markets and has trended upward over the postwar years. Diversification would seem to be critical for those invesors who do not emphasize issue selection. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Visual selective attention is the process by which we tune ourselves to the world so that, of the millions of bits per second transmitted by the retina, the information that is most important to us reaches awareness and directs action. Recently, new areas of attention research have opened up as classic models dividing attention into top-downand bottom-upsystems have been challenged. In this paper, we propose a theoretical framework, the priority state space (PSS) framework, integrating sources of salience that guide visual attention according to a nested hierarchy of goals. Using the PSS framework as a scaffold, we review evidence of selected sources of implicit attentional guidance, including recent research on statistical learning, semantic associations, and motivational and affective salience. We next summarize current understanding of the underlying neural circuitry facilitating guidance of attention by specific sources of salience, including key neuromodulator systems, with an emphasis on affective salience and the noradrenergic system. Finally, we discuss evidence for common mechanisms of prioritization, including integration of sources of salience via priority maps, and introduce the concept of the PSS as a model for mapping a complex dynamic attentional landscape.

We investigated the neural correlates of remote traumatic reexperiencing in survivors of a life-threatening incident: the near crash of Air Transat (AT) Flight 236. Survivors’ brain activity was monitored during video-cued recollection of the AT disaster, September 11, 2001 (9/11), and a comparatively nonemotional (neutral) event. Passengers showed a robust memory enhancement effect for the AT incident relative to the 9/11 and neutral events. This traumatic memory enhancement was associated with activation in the amygdala, medial temporal lobe, anterior and posterior midline, and visual cortex in passengers. This brain–behavior relationship also held in relation to 9/11, which had elevated significance for passengers given its temporal proximity to the AT disaster. This pattern was not observed in a comparison group of nontraumatized individuals who were also scanned. These findings suggest that remote traumatic memory is mediated by amygdalar activity, which likely enhances vividness via influences on hippocampal and ventral visual systems.

The Ice-Cream-Cone-Eating Flower eats ice-cream cones that people drop. If the cone gets smooshed, it uses its leaves as a cone. Rebecca Todd, Age 9 […]