March 2011
March 31, 2011
March 30, 2011
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Ants That Count! NPR's animation on the discovery that ants have built-in pedometers. #
March 29, 2011
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March 8, 2011
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Patricia Kuhl’s TED talk, the linguistic genius of babies. Interesting takeaway: infants have a sweet spot at six to eights months old in which they’re primed to the sounds of their mother tongue. This also works with foreign languages, but only when spoken by a person who’s present, not when exposed via audio or video. #
March 7, 2011
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March 1, 2011