The following are some recent gifted and gifted-related news stories for your consumption.
Category: News
Business Insider Gives Us Top Reasons Why It’s Awesome and Horrible to Be Labeled Gifted
Business Insider recently aggregated the results of a Reddit survey and identified the top 20 reasons why being labeled gifted is a positive thing and the top 19 reasons why it is a negative thing. It makes for pretty interesting Read More …
Acetaminophen Can Reduce Existential Pain in Addition to Headaches
Thinking about death can cause us to feel a sort of existential angst that isn’t attributable to a specific source. Now, new research suggests that acetaminophen, an over-the-counter pain medication, may help to reduce this existential pain. The research is Read More …
Boston Bomber was Musically and Athletically Gifted, According to Those Who Knew Him
As more information is coming out about the terrorist siblings responsible for the Boston bombing, some interesting details are emerging about the elder brother, Tamerlan Tzarnaev, that identify him as a gifted (but clearly troubled) man. While it has already been Read More …
Review of Merrill’s “If This is a Gift, Can I Send It Back?” In Current Roeper Review
My review of Jen Merrill’s book, If This is a Gift, Can I Send It Back? Surviving in the Land of the Gifted and Twice-Exceptional, is published in the just-released issue of the Roeper Review (volume 35, number 2). I Read More …
Gifted College Student Invents Healing Gel
This story represents a fine example of innovative and creative giftedness. Joe Landolina, a gifted junior at New York University, has developed a synthetic compound that “jumpstarts” the healing and clotting process, stemming bleeding in both mild and serious wounds. Read More …
Giftedness Must Not Be Confused With Mental Disorders
The New Zealand Association for Gifted Children, which represents gifted children and their families, has launched an awareness campaign to ensure that children who are highly gifted do not receive an inappropriate diagnosis of mental disorder. The New Zealand campaign Read More …
Study: Creativity Should be Taught as a Course
Creative thinking deserves a much higher priority in education curricula, according to college-educated professionals surveyed in new research released by Adobe. The U.S. study, Creativity and Education: Why it Matters, sheds new light on the role of creativity in career Read More …
Top Students Uncomfortable Being Identified As Gifted
A University of Canterbury (UC) study of top students has found many of them were not comfortable being identified as gifted and talented. The students in the UC survey said they understood that they needed to downplay any perceived abilities Read More …
Media Watch: Challenges of Raising Child Prodigies
Minnesota public radio’s Daily Circuit show featured a program on child prodigies last December. Featured guests included Andrew Solomon, the author of Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity and David Shenk, the author of The Genius Read More …