{"id":223,"date":"2014-11-18T12:44:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T00:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=223"},"modified":"2014-11-18T12:47:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T00:47:08","slug":"assorted-variousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"assorted variousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s link.<\/p>\n<p>First: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/creating-in-flow\/201411\/7-ways-unchain-your-brain-and-do-more-better\" target=\"_blank\">a post from Psychology Today<\/a> about using your brain more effectively (ie being more productive!). \u00a0Once again, the moral of the story is Slow Down. \u00a0Unplug. \u00a0Concentrate.<\/p>\n<p>Similar, and yet so different, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onbeing.org\/blog\/the-disease-of-being-busy\/7023\" target=\"_blank\">this deluxe post from On Being<\/a>\u00a0written by Omid Safi &#8230; it might be your new favourite thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/10-big-ideas-in-10-years-of-brain-science\/?page=2\" target=\"_blank\">This is an excellent piece <\/a>by Scientific American about 10 big additions to our thinking about neuroscience in the past decade. \u00a0 Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>OH! \u00a0Lovely initiative <a href=\"http:\/\/theartofyogaproject.org\/what-we-do\/our-model\/\">here &#8230; using yoga<\/a> to change the lives of young women in trouble. \u00a0MOre!<\/p>\n<p>Now, take four minutes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macfound.org\/documentaryfilm\/407\/\" target=\"_blank\">check out this promo<\/a> to a fantastic looking new documentary film called <em>Now Playing<\/em>. \u00a0I long to let rip a rant about the value of play in the lives of children and adults, but my toddler is keeping it all very real by tugging on my arm and beggin me to stop working.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m overdue a rant about play, having just written an article for OHbaby! about Play <em>and<\/em> a foreword for an exciting new book on the subject by my fab colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainwave.org.nz\/about-us\/our-people\/presenters\/sarah-best\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Best<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gotta boogie. \u00a0I&#8217;ll end with a public service announcement: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/07\/29\/us-usa-fistbump-idUSKBN0FX1Q820140729\" target=\"_blank\">adopt fist bumps as a replacement for high fives or handshakes and you will reduce the transfer of infection.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s link. First: a post from Psychology Today about using your brain more effectively (ie being more productive!). \u00a0Once again, the moral of the story is Slow Down. \u00a0Unplug. \u00a0Concentrate. Similar, and yet so different, is this deluxe post from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/?p=223\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,7,21,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baby.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}