“All the students have shown more advance in two months of summer study than they have in a year of ordinary instruction, largely due to their free and wholesome life in the open air.” YearsTwoStudyAirStudentsMonthsSummerOrdinaryDuesInstructionTwo Months Author:Howard Pyle
“Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a subject for study of the highest interest and so varied that I think I could be occupied for months without changing my place, simply bending a little more to the right or left.” ThinkingGivingLittlesDifferentLeftInterestStudySubjectsMonthsHighestRiversEdgesAngleBendingMotifsPlentifulDifferent Angles Author:Paul Cezanne
“I regret that my coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics. The omitted data suggested that African American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at increased risk for autism. Decisions were made regarding which findings to report after the data were collected, and I believe that the final study protocol was not followed.” BelieveMadeAgeI BelieveDecisionStudyRiskInformationRegretMonthsFindingsMalesFinalsSignificantDataAfrican AmericanReportsArticlesAutismJournalVaccinesI RegretProtocol Author:William Thompson
“I went to Columbia University because they were doing a study on people who suffered from panic attacks, and because I suffered from panic attacks my whole life, I decided to be a part of it. They had this questionnaire where they asked, How many units of alcohol do you have in a month? The top answer was 40 or more, and I got really scared because I was having on average 60 or 70 drinks a week. And I realized that that was a bad sign.” PeopleWholeAnswersStudyWeekMonthsDrinkDecidedUniversityAverageScaredAlcoholI RealizedWhole LifePanicUnitsColumbiaPanic AttacksColumbia UniversityQuestionnaires Author:Moby
“It will take about a month for that awareness to be fully absorbed and modify someone's attention field. During that period of time, a person who studies with me will meditate on their own, and apply those things that they have learned to their daily lives.” PersonsAttentionStudyAwarenessFieldsBuddhismMonthsPeriodsDaily LifeRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.” IfsGivingChildrenShowsRoomsStudyMonthsEmpathyCapacityBunchClimbsPensAltruismCushionsYoungest Child Author:Alison Gopnik
“Parents who want a fresh point of view on their furniture are advised to drop down on all fours and accompany the nine or ten month old on his rounds. It is probably many years since you last studied the underside of a dining room chair. The ten month old will study this marvel with as much concentration and reverence as a tourist in the Cathedral of Chartres.” WantYearsLastsParentRoomsViewsStudyMonthsTenRoundsPoint Of ViewNineChairsConcentrationReverenceFurnitureTouristsAccompanyCathedralsDiningDining RoomsFours Book:The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood
“A recent study announced that 52 per cent of all teens who sign virginity pledges recant them within twelve months. If I'm on my game.” IfsHumorFunnyGamesStudyMonthsTwelveCentsTeensPledgeVirginity Author:Tina Fey
“I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.” WayHoursReligiousStudyMonthsDecidedIncludingAbandonedReligious Life Author:Luke Ford
“I've been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I could probably brush up in a couple of months. The funny thing is that I actually took classes from Savion Glover, who worked in Happy Feet, when I was a kid. Isn't that wild? I was part of a selected group that was brought into New York from New Jersey (which is where I'm from) to study, every Saturday: ballet, jazz and tap. It was a musical comedy group.” KidsUsedBitsClassStudyComedyGroupsFeetNew YorkMonthsCoupleRight NowDancingJazzMusicalUsed To BeBalletSaturdayBrushesJerseyFunny ThingsSelectedNew JerseyHappy Feet Author:Brittany Murphy
“January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.” YearsSelfStudyBrokenMonthsEconomicsResolutionNew YearSelf ControlJanuaryFebruaryNew Years ResolutionBehavioral Economics Author:Sendhil Mullainathan