March 2011

March 31, 2011


March 30, 2011

  • 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

  • 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.

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March 1, 2011