Inspired Dreamer

The marshmallow experiment is a well known test conducted by Walter Mischel at Stanford University and discussed by Goleman in his popular work. In the 1960s, a group of four-year-olds were given a marshmallow and promised another, only if they could wait 20 minutes before eating the first one. Some children could wait and others could not. The researchers then followed the progress of each child into adolescence and demonstrated that those with the ability to wait were better adjusted and more dependable (determined via surveys of their parents and teachers), and scored an average of 210 points higher on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.¹

Here you can watch the Marshmallow test reproduced by Dr David Walsh, watch the reactions of these kids being tempted with marshmallows.

It’s an extract from “Les chasseurs de Pythons” (pythons’ hunters) describing the extraordinary traditional hunting method of the exceptional G’bayas poachers, a tracker is using his own leg as bait, with the real risk of his limb being pulled off if the snake is big enough!

Here is a new College Humor original video, it’s a parody of the “west side story” musical, It will take you through all your favorite sites on the web (twitter, facebook, pandora, … ).
Watch and have fun!

A very funny video, if you want to try the scary maze go here.