If you haven't yet seen the awesome Kid President videos you really must. Kid President, also known as 10-year-old Robby Novak, went viral in 2013 with inspirational videos you can't help but share. He creates the videos with his brother-in-law Brad Montague, a videographer and director of a summer camp for teenagers called GO! A Los Angeles company called SoulPancake, run by The Office actor Rainn Wilson, distributes the videos through its video channel.

I used to commute into the City every day for work, spending far too many hours on trains, tubes and buses. I haven't done it regularly in over two years but a couple of weeks ago I travelled up to meet some old colleagues on a Thursday afternoon and found myself surprised at the number of people around and, most oddly, a little nervous. When you're not used to it, it's an interesting - and sometimes intimidating - experience to be crammed into a small space with so many other human beings.

As the parent of a 4 year old boy I spend a lot of time in the park, the other day I overheard a parent tell their daughter not to kick the ball 'like a girl'. I thought this was a strange thing to say, firstly because she was a girl, and because I thought she'd actually given that ball a pretty hefty kick. It's not uncommon to hear people saying "don't throw/kick/hit like a girl" – in fact, writing this I realise I've said it to my own child - but this got me wondering when exactly it became ok to use the term as an insult? And more generally, why are we so quick to insult when we could be celebrating?

If you're keen on psychology in any of its guises you'll be familiar with the British Psychological Society's (BPS's) Research Digest. The Research Digest has been instrumental in making psychology accessible and applicable, it's quite simply awesome. Sadly though the editor, Christian Jarett, has decided to move on to other things.