PSYCHOLOGY TODAY: A Nation Of Wimps. “Parents are going to ludicrous lengths to take the bumps out of life for their children. However, parental hyperconcern has the net effect of making kids more fragile; that may be why they’re breaking down in record numbers.”

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THE LAW WAS FOR HIS OWN SAFETY: Florida Man Flees Seatbelt Stop on Foot, Cop Runs Him Over and Kills Him.

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NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Scientific 7-Minute Workout. “In 12 exercises deploying only body weight, a chair and a wall, it fulfills the latest mandates for high-intensity effort, which essentially combines a long run and a visit to the weight room into about seven minutes of steady discomfort — all of it based on science.”

Of course, if you do 12 exercises for 30 seconds each, with 10 seconds in between as recommended, that’s eight minutes, not seven. But they’re mostly English majors at the NYT.

Related: Study: Schools And Colleges Are Teaching The Wrong Type Of Math.

WHY KNOXVILLE’S ALLEYS are so safe.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Elizabeth Warren finds way to inflate Higher Ed bubble even more. “Warren’s first bill should be called the ‘Harvard Tuition Subsidization Act of 2013.'”

Related: U.S. News: Why A College Degree No Longer Guarantees Success.

IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE WOULD BE NO MATH: Oops: Arbitron data rains On Dickey Brothers’ Anti-Rush Limbaugh Parade.

KURT SCHMOKE: Calvin Coolidge, civil rights pioneer?

IS THERE ANYTHING THEY CAN’T DO? Not Just Child’s Play: Video Games Could Slow Mental Decline.

OUCH: Woman survives after husband accidentally shoots her in the mouth with harpoon.

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KEVIN WILLIAMSON: “We treat technological progress as though it were a natural process, and we speak of Moore’s law — computers’ processing power doubles every two years — as though it were one of the laws of thermodynamics. But it is not an inevitable, natural process. It is the outcome of a particular social order.”

I recommend his new book.

BLOOD KIN: All Europeans are related if you go back just 1,000 years, scientists say. “A genetic survey concludes that all Europeans living today are related to the same set of ancestors who lived 1,000 years ago. And you wouldn’t have to go back much further to find that everyone in the world is related to each other.”

WHEN OBAMA KICKED BUZZ ALDRIN to the back of the plane. Hey, you can ride. You just have to sit in the back.

TESTING IT OUT ON CHRIS MATTHEWS’ VIEWERS: New Test Distinguishes Physical From Emotional Pain in Brain for First Time.

AMERICA: Flying Unmanned Aircraft In The Face Of Authority. “Team BlackSheep, makers of thrilling YouTube aerial videos and antagonists of the FAA, tell us about the controversial art of first-person-view flying.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: No, really – don’t shop when you’re hungry: study. I went shopping hungry yesterday afternoon, and it was hard. Suddenly, everything looked good. But as a great thinker once said, I am a man of no small self-control.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Freddie DeBoer: Boy, I Wonder Why College Is So Expensive. “This was no mere gym. This was a Gleaming Fitness Palace. Back in my younger, stupider days, I joined a fancy gym in Chicago. It was posh, with lots of young go-getter professional types piling in to do a little chiseling. Let me tell you: the CoRec puts that gym to shame. It makes that gym look like the old skanky weight room dungeon I used to go to at my local Y.”

And yet, it’s administrative bloat that accounts for the greater part of the college cost explosion. Oh, wait: “But never fear! If the massive investment in tight student abdominals does not move you, right across the street, they’re building a new Gleaming Palace! Not, sadly, an academic building. The new Center for Student Excellence and Leadership is explicitly not for academics, as it’s being called a ‘third space,’ apart from home and school, by the administrators who multiply across the campus like cicadas. What do you do, in a third space, in this time of economic malaise, stagnant wages, exploding student debt, and generational hopelessness? What’s a Center for Student Excellence and Leadership for, exactly? You know, I don’t have a fucking clue.”

Related: Universities Exist Primarily To Enrich Football Coaches.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: “You are more likely to see artwork in the alleys of Knoxville than get mugged in one.”

GOOD NEWS: Fewer than 25% of NY Senate Democrats under investigation!

AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: John McCain Wants To Blow Up The Cable Industry As We Currently Know It. “The legislation would force cable companies and satellite TV providers to give consumers an option to pick and choose which channels they get. This is called a-la-carte programming, and its long been a dream of consumers who only want a handful of channels. . . . The TV industry is going to fight this legislation. It likes bundling 300 channels together and forcing consumers to pay a big monthly bill.”

And to think that I just suggested this this morning.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Before the United States enters Syria, it should consider the lessons of history.

TED CRUZ GOES ALL SOCIAL MEDIA on Obama and jobs.