Beyond that knee-jerk reaction to the idea of children meditating, there are other criticisms—mainly, that there isn’t the time or resources to do this kind of work. Vicki Zakrzewski at Greater Good explains: We hear from many teachers in low-income schools that social-emotional learning (SEL) is considered an “add-on”—something that can happen after students have proven their academic merit. If that’s the case, does that mean social-emotional learning is a luxury only for wealthy children, whose schools perform better academically and can afford to invest time and money in SEL programs?...

This practice compliments those, by helping us to know how we are the same. You can do the practice by bringing to mind a friend, a colleague, someone who is neutral, or someone who is difficult. You can also do this practice with a live partner while you are sitting across from each other or looking at each other, and repeating the phrases silently. You can use these phrases or others that seem more appropriate to you....

Millions of Android devices are vulnerable to dangerous malware apps Millions of Android devices are vulnerable to dangerous malware apps The issue stems from leaked platform certificates. These certificates or signing keys determine the legitimacy of the Android version on a device. Vendors also use these certificates to sign apps. While the Android OS assigns a unique user ID (UID) to each app upon installation, apps that share the signing keys can have a shared UID as well and have access to each other’s data....

Mindful Cities Launches In May, Flint, Michigan, became the first city to adopt mindfulness programming to support the community. Civic leaders took part in Collective Wisdom, a two-day gathering featuring the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute mindfulness-training program, created at Google. Supported by the Foundation for a Mindful Society—the parent organization of Mindful—and The Crim Fitness Foundation, the initiative provides education and resources to city leaders and the public about the benefits of mindfulness meditation....

First spotted by Windows Central, the said FCC entry doesn’t explicitly mention the Microsoft Surface Duo 2. However, the documents suggest so in multiple instances. For one, it is a “portable handset” that supports “flip and flat” states of usage. The listed firmware build number also closely matches the format we see on the original Surface Duo. All this points to none other than the Surface Duo 2. The FCC listing for the Surface Duo 2 reveals a few details about the handset....