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What is shared by mass murderers, felony drunk drivers, starving children, head banging caged laboratory animals, anxious overworked students, and most reptiles?...They don't play. What do most Nobel Laureates, historically renowned creative artists, successful multi-career entrepreneurs and animals of superior intelligence have in common?... They are full of play throughout their lives.

There are reasons to see play freshly as an exceedingly profound force of nature. More and more implications of its importance are being revealed through play science. This blog is grounded in evidence-based information about play behavior.

The time is now to more fully include its participation throughout our lives. The implications for our capacity to adapt, get along with each other  in small groups or globally, and therefore survive, requires us to embrace it more fully.