MonkeyToys

Izzy pointed me to an ingenious Texas A&M study on Vervet Monkeys and toy choice. As with humans, female monkeys tend to choose dolls, male monkeys tend to choose trucks.

MealMarkers

How to get picky eaters to pick fruits and vegetables?

See mealmarkers.com--Nutritionists joined a psychologist to create this tool to put the power of planning healthy meals into kids' hands. And it's game-like quality could spur Healthy competition.

If I were Del Monte, Dole, Bird's Eye or a grocery chain, I'd go bananas about this clever but simple idea.

PrincessParade

Little Caroline can take class called "Princess Ballet--and you can see why that's offered. Look what she lugs in her backpack: a posse of princesses. Later she found one more figure at the bottom, a lone prince.

You can keep your handsome prince. I put my chips on the princess square.