How 'The Hunger Games' Got Cool

“Hunger Games money” should show up as a rap lyric in the next 30 days or so. The second installment of everyone’s favorite children-killing-children saga, Catching Fire, made $158 million in its first three days of release, the sixth-best opening of all time, behind only money-printing franchises like Harry Potter and The Dark Knight. But what’s more notable than the overall box is this: unlike the first film, whose opening-weekend audience skewed 71 percent female, Catching Fire’s patrons were only 59 percent female, a 12 percent increase in male patronage that can’t entirely be explained by the fact that the second edition is a better-made film.

How 'The Hunger Games' Got Cool

Toms shoes announces U.S. giving program

It's an initiative you might call "red, white and shoe."
After seven years of giving globally, L.A.-based Toms shoes has announced it will begin giving at home, in the U.S.
The company, whose One for One business model donates a pair of shoes to someone in need for every pair it sells, aims to give 1 million pairs of shoes to children in the U.S. by the end of 2014.
New pairs of Toms shoes will be given to children in 35 states and access to eye care will be provided to children in three states, through sales of Toms eyewear.

Toms shoes announces U.S. giving program 

Hand Gestures Could Make Kids Smarter

 

Using hand gestures may be important for more than just making a point; they could help children to learn.
In research published in the journal Developmental Psychology, preschoolers and kindergartners who naturally gestured to indicate what they were trying to do showed more self control, an ability associated with cognitive maturity.

Hand Gestures Could Make Kids Smarter