Facts of Life

LESS TV, LESS AGGRESSION

In a study of the effects of media use, a group of third and fourth graders decreased their television, video and video game time from an average of 23 hours per week to 14 hours per week. After seven months this group showed 25% less aggressive behavior than another group of children who did not cut their TV time.

—Source: Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, January 2001

Edward Reginald Frampton, “The Voyage of St. Brendan,” 1908, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin.

Which Way Is Heaven?

J.R.R. Tolkien’s mystic west was inspired by the legendary voyage of St. Brendan, who sailed on a quest for a Paradise in the midst and mists of the ocean.