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Shaakya Vembar

You Say Potato, I Say Cassava: Language, Culture and Perception: Scientific American Po... - 0 views

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  • "Do you think its just a coincidence that the same culture that uses this kind of indeterminate word is the culture that came up with the uncertainty principle
  • we are obsessed with time, we talk about time all the time and in fact time is the number one noun in terms of usage according to the Oxford [English] Dictionary.
  • So we are talking about time all the time, but if you actually ask someone to define what time is, [they] really can't do it.
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  • So how do we talk about time? We talk about it metaphorically, and for the most part and this not just in English, but across the world in many different languages.
  • So the metaphors we have like time being a landscape that we are moving across; so we talk about "coming up to Thanksgiving," as though Thanksgiving is a location that we are moving towards, but we also sometimes talk about time as something that's moving while we are static.
  • Kuuk Thaayorre, the language of Pormpuraaw, is that time moves for them from east to west, so they don't talk about it as moving from east to west, but in terms of nonlinguistic cognition—we've tested this in various ways—they seem to depict it as moving from east to west
Mihikaa Naik

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mozart effect questions and answers

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  • Mozart Effect® is an inclusive term signifying the transformational powers of music in health, education, and well-being.
  • Research with Mozart's music began in France in the late 1950s when Dr. Alfred Tomatis began his experiments in auditory stimulation for children with speech and communication disorders.
  • 1990, there were hundreds of centers throughout the world using Mozart's music containing high frequencies, especially the violin concertos and symphonies, to help children with dyslexia, speech disorders, and autism.
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  • Mozart's music is the most popular and researched music for helping modify attentiveness and alertness.
  • The time of day, the sounds in the environment such as air conditioners, and outside sounds all modify the way we can concentrate
  • ). Dr. Georgi Lozanov suggests slow Baroque music for optimal learning
  • When rhythm, melody, and harmony are organized into beautiful forms, the mind, body, spirit, and emotions are brought toward harmony.
  • Music reaches multiple areas of the brain, more than just language and therefore can be quite effective in a clinical environment
  • Studies show that playing music early in life helps build the neural pathways that allow language, memory, and spatial development to take place.
Aditi Buti

Jihad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • religious duty of Muslims
  • Arabic, the word jihād translates into English as struggle.
  • ppears frequently in the Qur'an and common usage as the idiomatic expression "striving in the way of Allah
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  • Muslims use the word in a religious context to refer to three types of struggles: an internal struggle to maintain faith, the struggle to improve the Muslim society, or the struggle in a holy war
  • t British orientalist Bernard Lewis argues that in the Qur'an and the ahadith jihad implies warfare in the large majority of cases.
  • Mahatma Gandhi's satyagraha struggle for Indian independence is called a "jihad" in Modern Standard Arabic
  • The term 'jihad' has accrued both violent and non-violent meanings. It can simply mean striving to live a moral and virtuous life, spreading and defending Islam as well as fighting injustice and oppression, among other thi
  • d that
  • A commitment to hard work" and "achieving one's goals in life" "Struggling to achieve a noble cause" "Promoting peace, harmony or cooperation, and assisting others" "Living the principles of Islam"[14]
  • mean "duty toward God", a "divine duty", or a "worship of God", with no militaristic connotations. Other responses referenced, in descending order of prevalence:
  • A poll by Gallup showed that a "significant majority" of Muslim Indonesians define the term to mean "sacrificing one's life for the sake of Islam/God/a just cause" or "fighting against the opponents of Islam". In Lebanon, Kuwait, Jordan
  • and Morocco, the majority used the term to
  • jihad is the only form of warfare permissible under Islamic law, and may consist in wars against unbelievers, apostates, rebels, highway robbers and dissenters renouncing the authority of Islam
  • aim of jihad as warfare is not the conversion of non-Muslims to Islam by force, but rather the expansion and defense of the Islamic state
  • encourages the use of Jihad against non-Muslims.
  • Sura 25, verse 52 states: “Therefore, do not obey the disbelievers, and strive against them with this, a great striving.”[41] It was, therefore, the duty of all Muslims to strive against those who did not believe in Allah and took offensive action against Muslims. The Qu’ran, however, never uses the term Jihad for fighting and combat in the nam
  • Allah
  • qital is used to mean “fighting.” The struggle for Jihad in the Qu’ran was originally intended for the nearby neighbors of the Muslims, but as time passed and more enemies arose, the Qur'anic statements supporting Jihad were updated for the new adversaries.[40] The first documentation of the law of Jihad was written by ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Awza’i and Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani. The document grew out of debates that had surfaced ever since Muhammad's death.[39] Early instances
Mihikaa Naik

Mozart's Legacy: Early music lessons may help children later in life - 0 views

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mozart effect music children life

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  • music instruction stimulates general intelligence.
  • Kindermusik is an early childhood program that introduces children as young as 1 to music, with the intent of stimulating a variety of abilities.
  • music and math relationship
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  • interact with other kids, and learn to appreciate music, hopefully stimulate the brain…
  • coordination and movement, with social skills, and it's some one-on-one time with your child
  • strong foundation for language development.
  • music instruction has much longer-term benefits than listening to music
  • can learn a lot about how music works just by hearing it
  • you're an adult, don't count on a piece of music to work magic on your brain.
  • teachers who play Mozart to their students in the hopes their test scores will improve. "And for a lot of students it's not going to work simply because Mozart is weird to them. They're not used to it. They don't like it, and so nobody performs well under stress."
golan elzur

The EU Ban on Animal Testing for Cosmetics - Animal Free Zone (UK) - 0 views

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cosmetics testing ban

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  • The ban was agreed upon in 2002, but goes into effect in 2009
  • After years of discussion and debate, language for the ban was completed by 1998. Initial passage of the ban occurred in 2002
  • During the process, it was learned that some companies planned to circumvent the ban by testing cosmetics on animals outside the border of the EU and then import them for sale.
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  • The cosmetics industry maintains that animal testing is the only way to be sure that ingredients in cosmetics and personal hygiene products will not c
  • ause cancer or aggravate allergies
  • France has consistently opposed the EU ban. Collectively, the cosmetics companies in France make it the largest animal tester in Europe. However, opinion polls indicate that 60 percent of French citizens oppose animal testing
anouska khambatta

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policy economic india

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  • Since 1991 more "new economic policies" or reforms have been introduced.
  • Reforms include currency devaluations and making currency partially convertible, reduced quantitative restrictions on imports, reduced import duties on capital goods, decreases in subsidies, liberalized interest rates, abolition of licenses for most industries, the sale of shares in selected public enterprises, and tax reforms.
  • faster growth rate of the economy
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  • these changes would create more problems than they solved
    • anouska khambatta
      anouska khambatta on 12 Nov 10
       
      This is important as it states that when it changed more problems were to be created.
  • The pace of liberalization increased after 1991
  • In early 1995, official charges of serving adulterated products were made against a KFC outlet in Bangalore, and Pepsi-Cola products were smashed and advertisements defaced in New Delhi. The most serious backlash occurred in Maharashtra in August 1995 when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP--Indian People's Party)-led state government halted construction of a US$2.8 million 2,015-megawatt gas-fired electric-power plant being built near Bombay (Mumbai in the Marathi language) by another United States company, Enron Corporation.
    • anouska khambatta
      anouska khambatta on 12 Nov 10
       
      This is a negative point of view. It shows how things were stopped due to policies.
  • Early Policy Developments India
    • anouska khambatta
      anouska khambatta on 12 Nov 10
       
      The first few paragrapghs are about the early years in which the economic policy was being developed.
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