Caveman Power

I’ve been following the lectures on TED for a couple of years, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in ideas, technology and design. TED is an organisation that holds lectures ...

http://www.cavemanpower.com/blog/ted-inspired-talks-by-the-worlds-greatest-thinkers-and-doers/

From the website: Children are vulnerable to advertising. They are less able than adults to fully understand that the purpose of advertising is not to inform but to persuade, and to ultimately se...

http://www.cavemanpower.com/blog/new-website-to-protect-kids-from-junk-food-marketing/

Louise Baur, Professor of the Discipline of Paediatrics & Child Health at the University of Sydney and Consultant Paediatrician at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, says that parents are str...

http://www.cavemanpower.com/blog/experts-say-marketing-of-junk-food-to-children-must-be-restricted/

In this event at the CI World Congress, 12 children were asked to choose the contents of their lunch box from a range of healthy and unhealthy options. The results speak for themselves. You can v...

http://www.cavemanpower.com/blog/the-lunch-box-challenge/

The Slosh Tube is a bit of PVC pipe about 3 meters long, 4 inches thick, and filled with 20 litres of water.  You can build one for approximately $20. It’s surprisingly difficult to control th...

http://www.cavemanpower.com/blog/working-out-with-the-slosh-tube/

If your goal is optimum physical competence then all the general physical skills must be considered: 1. Cardiovascular/respiratory Endurance - The ability of body systems to gather, process, and ...

http://www.cavemanpower.com/blog/what-it-means-to-be-truly-fit/

The originator of the theory of multiple intelligences, Howard Gardner,  a  professor  of  education  at  Harvard  University,  defines intelligence as the potential ability to process a ...

http://www.cavemanpower.com/blog/seven-different-types-of-intelligence-trumps-the-classic-iq-test/

Dr Martin Donohoe MD FACP has researched the body image problem that is ubiquitous throughout western civilisation.  He has uncovered some interesting statistics. From the article: As many as 66...

http://www.cavemanpower.com/blog/the-flip-side-to-the-obesity-epidemic/

If you are a home scientist - fascinated with how things works, and curious about fields such as Biology, Geography, Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy (not astrology!), and the Earth Science… then ...

http://www.cavemanpower.com/blog/are-you-a-home-scientist/

  A recent report from the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research has confirmed what most people are already painfully aware of;  not getting enough sleep. From the report: Almost a fifth of NS...

http://www.cavemanpower.com/blog/not-getting-enough-sleep-welcome-to-the-machine/