My kids, like most of us, are often perplexed by simple choices, especially when choosing from a wide selection of options, like which of their friends are “it” first. Whereas we adults pretend to use common sense and analysis in order to dress up an otherwise arbitrary decision, kids resort to more playful means. They […]

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If you’ve watched Derren Brown, Britain’s “answer” to David Blaine, then you will probably know his phone trick. An suspecting member of the public answers a ringing phone in a phone booth and within seconds they fall down in a trance. That’s probably what ought to happen to someone who picks up a ringing public […]

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