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KidNuz: News for Kids

09.26.2018

KidNuz: News for Kids

Starglow Media

Kids & Family, Education, News

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Smart Study, Insta-gone, Nike’s Niche, Medical Breakthrough and Weebles Wobble!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning and welcome the Kid News. I'm Tori. Today is Wednesday, September 26, 2018.

0:08.0

And we begin with ammunition for a lively classroom debate. A new study finds that girls get better grades than boys at all ages, including in math and science.

0:19.0

Australian researchers analyzed 1.6 million kids in grammar school, high school, and college and found that on average, girls outperformed boys in every subject.

0:30.0

The advantage is narrower in STEM, but reportedly still there.

0:34.1

For decades, many educators believe men were just biologically better at math and science than women.

0:40.5

Former Harvard President Lawrence Summers actually had to resign in 2006 shortly after

0:46.0

publicly supporting that theory.

0:48.4

This new study, which seems to turn that long-held myth upside down appears in the journal Nature Communications.

0:56.7

There's another shakeup at Facebook.

0:58.9

The two founders of Instagram, which is now owned by the social media giant, just left the company

1:04.4

under somewhat mysterious circumstances. Industry watchers believe

1:08.3

Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger wanted to run their wildly popular Instagram app with a little more independence

1:15.1

than CEO Mark Zuckerberg would allow. Their sudden exit follows the recent

1:19.7

departure of the WhatsApp founders and a reshuffling of Facebook executives earlier this year.

1:26.7

In other business news, Nike just did it.

1:29.8

The company named after the Greek goddess of victory beat Wall Street's earnings expectations for the quarter. The was not factored in because it debuted after the quarter ended, but sales are up considerably

1:45.1

since it was released.

1:46.7

In fact, it's been so successful that they're doubling down with polarizing golfer Tiger Woods.

1:52.4

Its latest ad, an Instagram post celebrating Woods first PGA

1:56.4

Tour win in five years.

1:58.5

The first image shows his back with the words, he's done, and a swipe through to the second image shows him giving a fist pump and the words it again

2:08.6

History was made at the United Nations yesterday not by a world, but by a three-month-old baby.

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