Hey Kids! Watch Mighty Machines Digging a Hole

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Be sure to listen to the song at the end of this video! 

Mindfulness Training and Test Scores? Really?

Teach me Something! Studies reporting the  benefits of mindfulness training keep rolling in—not quite with the regularity of those distracting thoughts that keep popping up in your head, but at a good clip nonetheless.

The latest, from a team at the University of California, Santa Barbara, reports even a short, two-week course in focusing the mind can lead to immediate, tangible results: higher scores on tests measuring reasoning and comprehension.

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