What Makes People Tick?

World-famous celebrity couple Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis are the proud new parents of baby girl Wyatt Isabelle Kutcher, as reported by several media outlets. Apart from seeing the parents on television and in movies I don't know much about them, nor do I need to. They're both good at what they do, that's what matters to me. I know I've enjoyed their work on more than one occasion. So, why am I commenting on their happy news? The proud father posted a birth-notice online with eight baby photos, including one of a dog and one of a llama. I thought his words worth repeating: Mila and I would like to welcome Wyatt Isabelle Kutcher to the world.  May your life be filled with wonder, love, laughter, health, happiness, curiosity, and privacy.  Can you guess which one is ours, or does it really matter? All babies are cute.  -Ashton  Source: One of these is Mila and Ashton's baby....and her name is Wyatt , A + What struck me about the first paragraph was the ...

What is your earliest memory? Do you remember being five years old, being a toddler, being a baby? Do you remember what it was like in the womb? Chances are you might remember something from when you were around five years old, whereas the earlier years of your life are most likely a blur, if you remember anything at all. Yet the early years of our lives are when we learn all the basics for the rest of our lives. We learn to crawl, to walk, to talk, to recognise people and situations, to differentiate cats from dogs and other animals, to play with other children and navigate playground politics, to understand that fire is hot, that we need to be cautious around strangers, that we need to look both ways before crossing the street... We learn almost everything we need to know to live and survive the rest of our lives yet when we're older we usually can't remember learning many of these things. playground slide Which leads me to wonder, how exactly does a baby's brain...

This is absolutely shocking. British newspaper Metro News reports that 23-year old Lithuanian Aurimas Medvedevas killed his two-month old baby daughter the day her mother went back to work for the very first time since giving birth. The man's 22-year old partner Dzesika Urbikaite came home from her first day back at work to find the nine week old baby dead in her cot. Mr. Medvedevas was sentenced to a minimum of 22 years in prison. Jailing him today, judge Timothy Pontius said the brutality of the attack on a defenceless baby almost defied belief. He said the fact that baby Aukse suffered considerably for hours before her eventual death ‘demonstrated a callousness that is as incredible as it is inhuman’.  Prosecutor Karim Khalil QC told jurors: ‘For reasons known only to him, he took hold of his own baby, he bit her on the head, he struck her repeatedly and he shook her hard. As a result of all that she died, not immediately, but a few hours later.’  The nine-week-old ...