Archive for May, 2005
05-05-09
Tags: New Approaches to Infant Learning and Cognition
A conference at Duke University May 21-22, 2005.
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05-05-06
Tags: (New Scientist) One law rules dedicated followers of fashion One law rules dedicated followers of fashion 07 May 2005 "Imitation is deeply rooted […]
Mark Buchanan
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05-05-06
My kind of solution to traffic jams
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05-05-05
Gamers see faster - Duh
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05-05-04
Evolution of urgliness: you are doomed
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(Teaching, Odds'n'Ends, Paperville, Psychology) | 0
05-05-04
Rad Geek’s FeedWordPres
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05-05-04
Tags: Adoption and Cognitive Development: A Meta-Analytic Comparison of Adopted and Nonadopted Children’s IQ and School Performance.
by van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Juffer, Femmie; Poelhuis, Caroline W. Klein from Psychological Bulletin. 2005 Mar Vol 131(2) 301-316
This meta-analysis of 62 studies (N=17,767 adopted children) examined whether the cognitive development of adopted children differed from that of […]
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05-05-02
Tags: Overcoming Orthografic Frontirs by Chris Upward, Journal of the Simplified Spelling Society, J24, 1998-2, pp18-22 As th European Union expands, so do its problms of languaj manajmnt. Many se a solution in english as a natrl lingua franca, but its caotic orthografy is a major obstacl. This paper sujests that comunication between european languajs is […]
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(Research, Odds'n'Ends, Linguistics) | 0
05-05-02
Miss Spelling’s misspelling Center
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05-05-02
Tags: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is a leading cause of death before 1 year old. About 1/3 infant death was blamed on SIDS in mid 1970’s. Since 1992, the American Academy of Pediatrics has worked hard on a public compaign called "back to sleep" — putting babies to bed face up to avoid suffocation. It […]
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05-05-02
Tags: Say How? a pronunciation guide to names of public figures (436 kilobyte file).
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically handicapped (NLS/BPH) (what? Not "physically disabled"?) has the following two odd documents, both updated April 2005 (via LanguageHat):
The ABC Book, a pronunciation guide to commercial names. […]
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05-05-02
What Word tells you about a student paper
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05-05-01
Tags: I’ve been searching for an Open Source alternative of Endnote. It’s partially philosophical, but mostly because its interface is so bad. There are few projects on SourceForge. BibDesk is very popular on MacOS. On the windows side, there is surprisingly little effort. So far the most promising is JabRef: Java GUI for managing BibTeX and other […]
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05-05-01
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Email makes you stupidier and TV makes you smarter.
Mark Liberman has spent some time to debunk both at Language Log. I think I will skip this one.
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