You think you’re overweight? Check this out: the world’s largest pre-schoolers. Dzhambulat Khotokhov is four years old and weighs 123 pounds (56 kilos).
Great article by Jakob Nielsen (all hail the Nielsen Norman group) called Information Foraging: Why Google Makes People Leave Your Site Faster, who says “…basic laziness is a human characteristic that might be survival-related (don’t exert yourself unless you have to)”. Quite agree – strange that when applied to something like piano technique we call this “economy of movement”, yet if a student dares to do the same with their brain, we call it laziness (well, I don’t – and nor do programmers, I suspect, if you look at what brute force) means to them).
