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welcome to the cotkey ride home for for Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.

Cuddlefish have passed a test designed for small human children.

Polaroid has made a pen that draws in edible 3D candy.

What we can learn from cats about being happier and more content with life, and a website that translates your typing into jazz music.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

You know the marshmallow test?

Not the YouTube thing where you shove as many marshmallows as possible in your cheeks and

try to say chubby bunny, but the 1972 Stanford University experiment in which preschoolers were

left alone in a room with a marshmallow and told that if they could wait for 15 minutes

without eating the marshmallow, they'd be given a second one and could eat both of them.

It was an experiment on the development of human's cognitive abilities, specifically the idea

of delayed gratification, as well as what a child's response could indicate about their future success,

which the researchers found there was a strong correlation between kids who put off eating

the first marshmallow and indicators like good grades and strong self-confidence as they grew older.

The study's been criticized for a number of reasons over the years, including for the fact that kids who ate the first marshmallow may have been more used to food scarcity, and as such may also have faced other challenges that led to them having worse grades or falling short of other types of success indicators.

And this is something lead author Walter Mitchell himself was aware of, and he cautioned people

not to overly rely on the findings of his study. Subsequent studies over the years have also

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