Oh! That’s Interesting!
So. You’re smart kids right?! RIGHT. As smart kids, you of course LOVE reading interesting articles, thinking about them, and then sharing your new found thoughts, understandings and wonderings with your friends!
Right!?
Right.
So, check out the thought provoking pieces below and choose 1 to read. After you’ve done so, get in a group with some of your friends and have a quick chat about the thoughts the piece provoked. They’ll read a different piece and the 3 of you will have a lively idea based intellectual discussion prompted by 3 different articles! Enjoy!
How the Language you speak affects your cognition:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-the-language-you-speak-changes-your-view-of-the-world-10212854.html
How could you like THAT book?!
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/nov/10/how-could-you-like-that-book/
Is Love an Emotion?
https://www.paulekman.com/psychology/is-love-an-emotion/
There is No Such Thing as You:
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/11/no-such-thing-as-you-thats-okay.html
The Science of the “Happy Cry”
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/11/heres-the-science-of-the-happy-cry.html