In this Tuesday, May 9, 2017, photo, a fidget spinner is played with at a 7-Eleven convenience store, in Warren, Mich. Fidget spinners, the 3-inch twirling gadgets taking over classrooms and cubicles, ...

With less than two weeks before school ends, one Horry County school has banned the controversial fidget spinner toys. River Oaks Elementary School Principal Robert Homer said the decision to ban them ...

Fidgeting didn't start with the spinner craze. If you've ever clicked a ballpoint pen again and again, you've used a fidget item. As part of our work, we've asked people what items they like to fidget ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Fidgeting didn't start with the spinner craze. If ...

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