The Stanford marshmallow experiment, run in 1970 by psychologist Walter Mischel, offered children a choice between one treat now or two if they could wait. The researcher left a child alone with a marshmallow for about 15 minutes, and those who waited got a second reward. In follow-up studies, children who waited longer tended to have higher SAT scores, more education and better measures of life outcomes. The result became famous as evidence that self-control in childhood predicts future success. Later work complicated this. A replication with a far larger and more diverse sample found only about half the original effect, and it suggested that family economic background explained much of the rest. A 2020 study challenged its predictive power further, and work in 2018 and 2024 concluded that the test does not reliably predict adult functioning.

Israeli reports also say the cabinet directed the military to prepare for a possible new attack on Iran.

Angkor, near Siem Reap in northern Cambodia, was the capital of the Khmer Empire, which ruled much of mainland Southeast Asia between roughly the 9th and 15th centuries. At its height the city spread across about 3,000 square kilometres, making it the largest pre-industrial city on Earth by area. Its growth depended on water: huge reservoirs called barays, along with canals and embankments, stored monsoon rain and carried it to rice fields. That system let farmers harvest more than once a year and fed a very large population through the dry season. The temple complex of Angkor Wat, built in the early 12th century, is the best-known monument and still stands at the heart of the park.