Cloninger has trained rats and mice in mazes to have persistence by carefully not rewarding them when they get to the finish. “The key is intermittent reinforcement,” says Cloninger. The brain has to learn that frustrating spells can be worked through. “A person who grows up getting too frequent rewards will not have persistence, because they’ll quit when the rewards disappear.”

From How Not to Talk to Your Kids.

I just finished Chapter 6 of Flash CS4 Professional Digital Classroom:

[flv:https://mattmazur.com/playground/fl0602_work.swf 550 300]

I’m fairly certain if you keep this on loop and watch it for more than 30 seconds your head will explode.

I’ve started learning Flash with the help of an excellent book titled Flash CS4 Professional Digital Classroom.

Here’s the culmination of today’s work, which is based on the tutorial in Chapter 3.

I’m quite proud of it myself.

Scott Weaver, 49, spent 34 years building a city out of 1M+ toothpicks:

Click here to read the entire article.

The best line from the interview is at the end when he says:

“The lesson in this is what do we do with our time. And I love to create. I love to show people what can be done in life if you spend time to create. Use your imagination.”