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parataxic is a woman from Florida, USA
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." Vonnegut
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Newborn Babies May Cry in their Mother Tongues - US News...
Rated • 2 reviews • babies • usnews.com
Only days after birth, babies have a bawl with language. Newborn babies cry in melodic patterns that they have heard in adult's conversations" even while in the womb, say medical anthropologist Kathleen Wermke of the University of Wsrzburg in Germany, and her colleagues.
By 2 to 5 days of age, infants cries bear the tuneful signature of their parents native tongue, a sign that language learning has already commenced, the researchers report in a paper published online November 5 in Current Biology.
Fluent speakers use melodic patterns and pitch shifts to imbue words and phrases with emotional meaning. Changes in pitch and rhythm, for example, can indicate anger. During the last few months of fetal life, babies can hear what their mothers or other nearby adults are saying, providing exposure to melodies peculiar to a specific language, Wermke says. Newborns then re-create those familiar patterns in at least some of their cries, she proposes. -
Kierkegaard on the Couch - Happy Days Blog - NYTimes.com
Rated • 1 review • philosophy • nytimes.com
"These days, confide to someone that you are in despair and he or she will likely suggest that you seek out professional help for your depression. While despair used to be classified as one of the seven deadly sins, it has now been medicalized and folded into the concept of clinical depression. If Kierkegaard were on Facebook or could post a You Tube video, he would certainly complain that we, who have listened to Prozac, have become deaf to the ancient distinction between psychological and spiritual disorders, between depression and despair." -
Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize - NYTimes.com
Rated • 3 reviews • politics • nytimes.com
"Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future," the committee said in its citation. 'His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population."
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eNature: Bird Audio
Rated • 5 reviews • birds • enature.com
Great way to screw with the cat. Click on a type of bird and you can play its song/call. My cat ran to the window with the duck's quack, looked up for the owl and osprey, and "found" the dove's sound in the computer speaker.
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Demo from an excellent young videographer. Check it out.
MJ O'Leary
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Pete Turner Photography
Rated • 136 reviews • photography • peteturner.com
Pete Turner Photography
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Microbes 'R' Us - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
Rated • 2 reviews • biology • nytimes.com
"The typical human is home to a vast array of microbes. If you were to count them, you'd find that microbial cells outnumber your own by a factor of 10. On a cell-by-cell basis, then, you are only 10 percent human. For the rest, you are microbial. (Why don't you see this when you look in the mirror? Because most of the microbes are bacteria, and bacterial cells are generally much smaller than animal cells. They may make up 90 percent of the cells, but they're not 90 percent of your bulk.)"
