Cricket in Examination Hall

What do a cricketer playing a match and a student taking an exam have in common?
A cricketer = A student
Stadium = Examination Hall
Batsman = Student
Bowler = Teacher
Umpire = Invigilator
Third umpire = Principal
Spectators = Parents
Googly = completely difficult questions
Body line = compulsory questions

Phobias

• Agyrophobia- Fear of streets or crossing the street.
• Albuminurophobia- Fear of kidney disease.
• Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens.
• Alliumphobia- Fear of garlic.
• Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions.
• Amathophobia- Fear of dust.
• Anablephobia- Fear of looking up.
• Anthrophobia or Anthophobia- Fear of flowers.
• Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
• Aulophobia- Fear of flutes.
• Bibliophobia- Fear of books
• Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman
• Chaetophobia- Fear of hair
• Chromophobia or Chromatophobia- Fear of colors
• Coulrophobia- Fear of clowns.
• Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to school.
• Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers.
• Epistemophobia- Fear of knowledge.
• Euphobia- Fear of hearing good news.
• Geliophobia- Fear of laughter.
• Geniophobia- Fear of chins.
• Genuphobia- Fear of knees.

Night-time Sleep Found Beneficial to Infants' Skills

Young children who get most of their sleep at night perform better in executive functioning than children who don't sleep as much at night, a new study finds. The study of 60 Canadian children aged 1, 1-1/2 and 2, examined the children's sleep habits and executive functioning skills, including impulse control and mental flexibility. The researchers found that children who sleep mostly at night did better on executive function tasks, especially those involving impulse control.

At ages 1 and 1-1/2, children who get most of their sleep at night (as opposed to during the day) do better in a variety of skill areas than children who don't sleep as much at night.

That's the finding of a new longitudinal study conducted by researchers at the University of Montreal and the University of Minnesota. The research appears in the November/December 2010 issue of the journal Child Development.