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Katie Raborn

Babies Learn To Talk By Reading Lips, New Research Suggests - 0 views

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Babies learn by reading lips

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  • developmental psychologist David Lewkowicz of Florida Atlantic University
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  • Babies don't learn to talk just from hearing sounds. New research suggests they're lip-readers too.
  • 6 months, babies begin shifting from the intent eye gaze of early infancy to studying mouths when people talk to them.
    • Katie Raborn
      Katie Raborn on 27 Feb 13
       
      Babies study mouths at around 6 months
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  • absorb the movements that match basic sounds
  • first birthdays, babies start shifting back to look you in the eye again
    • Katie Raborn
      Katie Raborn on 27 Feb 13
       
      by their first birthdays infants start looking in your eyes again.
  • University of Iowa psychology professor Bob McMurray, who also studies speech development.
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  • quality face-time with your tot is very important for speech development – more than, say, turning on the latest baby DVD.
  • Other studies have shown that babies who are best at distinguishing between vowel sounds like "ah" and "ee" shortly before their first birthday wind up with better vocabularies and pre-reading skills by kindergarten.
  • babies also look to speakers' faces for important social cues about what they're hearing
  • So he and doctoral student Amy Hansen-Tift tested nearly 180 babies, groups of them at ages 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 months. How? They showed videos of a woman speaking in English or Spanish to babies of English speakers. A gadget mounted on a soft headband tracked where each baby was focusing his or her gaze and for how long.
    • Katie Raborn
      Katie Raborn on 27 Feb 13
       
      Lewkowicz and Hansen tested how babies learn
  • They found a dramatic shift in attention: When the speaker used English, the 4-month-olds gazed mostly into her eyes. The 6-month-olds spent equal amounts of time looking at the eyes and the mouth. The 8- and 10-month-olds studied mostly the mouth.
    • Katie Raborn
      Katie Raborn on 27 Feb 13
       
      Different age groups studied the speaker differently.
  • At 12 months, attention started shifting back toward the speaker's eyes.
  • at 6 months, babies begin observing lip movement, Lewkowicz says, because that's about the time babies' brains gain the ability to control their attention rather than automatically look toward noise.
    • Katie Raborn
      Katie Raborn on 27 Feb 13
       
      At age 6 months babies brains gain the ability to control their attention.
  • Duke University cognitive neuroscientist Greg Appelbaum
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Ronnice Moore

Professor says gaming can help relieve stress | TCU 360 - 0 views

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  • Ronnice Moore on 07 Mar 13
     
    I've learned this is true from experience of having friends who play those type of games.
Nick Noack

World won't end in 2012, says Mayan expert - CBC News - 3 views

www.cbc.ca/...mayan-apocalypse.html

world says mayan expert cbc news astronomy 2012 earth doomsday chemistry nasa calendar maya science

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  • Nick Noack on 02 Dec 11
     
    better, from CBC news!
Caitlan Granger

What Are The Long-term Effects Of Teenage Pregnancy? | LIVESTRONG.COM - 0 views

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pregnancy teenage effects

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  • Teenage mothers often experience social exclusion
  • they are twice as likely to feel depressed as compared to adult mothers
  • If the father is a teenager, he is more likely to begin to abuse drugs and alcohol than other boys his age
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  • Children born to teenage parents are more likely to lack proper prenatal care
  • also more likely to be born prematurely, have low birth weight, or become hospitalized during their childhood than children born to adults, states the March of Dimes. The same source says that babies of teenage mothers are more likely to die during their first year of life
  • the children of teenage mothers are more likely to drop out of high school, or become unemployed than the children of older women. They experience abuse and neglect quite often, and many of them become parents as teenagers.
  • Caitlan Granger on 09 Nov 12
     
    Many reliable sources and quotes, therefore this site is trustworthy.
  • Caitlan Granger on 09 Nov 12
     
    I find it strange that a child born from teen parents is more likely to become a teen parent themselves.
Natalie Mitten

Why Einstein Was a Genius - ScienceNOW - 0 views

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  • Thomas Harvey, permission to preserve the brain for scientific study. Harvey photographed the brain and then cut it into 240 blocks, which were embedded in a resinlike substance.
  • only six peer-reviewed publications resulted from these widely scattered materials
  • greater density of neurons in some parts of the brain and a higher than usual ratio of glia (cells that help neurons transmit nerve impulses) to neurons
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  • 2009 by anthropologist Dean Falk of Florida State University in Tallahassee,
  • But the Falk study was based on only a handful of photographs that had been previously made available by Harvey, who died in 2007.
  • several regions feature additional convolutions and folds rarely seen in other subjects.
  • and his prefrontal cortex—linked to planning, focused attention, and perseverance in the face of challenges—is also greatly expanded.
  • Albert Galaburda, a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, says that "what's great about this paper is that it puts down … the entire anatomy of Einstein's brain in great detail.
  • he study raises "very important questions for which we don't have an answer."
  • whether Einstein started off with a special brain that predisposed him to be a great physicist, or whether doing great physics caused certain parts of his brain to expand
  • "some combination of a special brain and the environment he lived in."
  • Falk agrees that both nature and nurture were probably involved
  • "he had the right brain in the right place at the right time."
Azrael Long

The Beatles' Surprising Contribution To Brain Science : Shots - Health News : NPR - 0 views

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beatles contribution brain science

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  • evidence that the motor system can step in to help retrieve a chunk of forgotten musical notes.
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      Azrael Long on 19 Nov 12
       
      Motor system can step in to help retrieve a chunk of forgotten musical notes? Would this go as deep as knowing a musical scale with a missing note, and being able to figure out what that missing note is say by singing it? Gotta look more into this.
    • Azrael Long
      Azrael Long on 04 Dec 12
       
      Found a study on the pentatonic scale that proves this.
Natalie Mitten

What we can learn from procrastination : The New Yorker - 0 views

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      Natalie Mitten on 06 Nov 12
       
      Says "articles" but doesn't note any articles. hmm. Credible statement?
  • The Thief of Time,” edited by Chrisoula Andreou and Mark D. White (Oxford; $65)
  • anxiety about it as a serious problem seems to have emerged in the early modern era
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  • Piers Steel, a business professor at the University of Calgary, the percentage of people who admitted to difficulties with procrastination quadrupled between 1978 and 2002
  • Americans waste hundreds of millions of dollars because they don’t file their taxes on time
  • Harvard economist David Laibson has shown
  • that American workers have forgone huge amounts of money in matching 401(k) contributions because they never got around to signing up for a retirement plan.
  • Seventy per cent of patients suffering from glaucoma risk blindness because they don’t use their eyedrops regularly
  • delaying tough decisions
  • Piers Steel defines procrastination as willingly deferring something even though you expect the delay to make you worse off.
  • sixty-five per cent of students surveyed before they started working on a term paper said they would like to avoid procrastinating: they knew both that they wouldn’t do the work on time and that the delay would make them unhappy.
Katy Wilson

Obama Legacy On Keystone XL Pipeline Is New Environmentalist Appeal - 0 views

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  • "Russell Graham, associate professor of geosciences and director of the Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum at Penn State University, says global warming will most harm the animals adapted to the coldest environments, primarily those accustomed to life in the Arctic."
    • Katy Wilson
      Katy Wilson on 06 Mar 13
       
      What about the other animals, not just the ones that are originated in the artic.
  • 40-73 percent of pregnant females could fail to bring cubs to term.
Katie Stevenson

Delivery By By C-Section Increases Risk Of Allergies In Childhood - 0 views

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research childhood allergies

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  • a Henry Ford Hospital study suggests that C-section babies are susceptible to developing allergies by age two.
  • was presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology annual meeting in San Antonio.
  • says Christine Cole Johnson, Ph.D., MPH, chair of Henry Ford Department of Health Sciences
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  • C-section babies have a pattern of "at risk" microorganisms in their gastrointestinal tract that may make them more susceptible to developing the antibody Immunoglobulin E, or IgE, when exposed to allergens
  • Article Date: 26 Feb 2013 - 1:00 PST
  • Katie Stevenson on 26 Feb 13
     
    Could a C-Section increase the risk of allergies in children?
Carolina Torres

Marijuana Use Among U.S. Teens More Common Than Cigarette-Smoking, Survey Finds - 1 views

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  • This marks the first time that marijuana use has eclipsed cigarette smoking. One expert says that a factor in rising marijuana use is that teens perceive the drug to be less harmful for their health than cigarettes.
    • Carolina Torres
      Carolina Torres on 02 Nov 12
       
      It not only seems less harmful, most teens don't care about the effects of marijuana. So they smoke it more then cigarettes because most of them know whats inside of cigarettes. So in a way, marijuana is better.
Alexis Ramsey

nsf.gov - National Science Foundation (NSF) Discoveries - Older Is Better for Hunting D... - 0 views

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HD hunting dogs

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  • Older dogs and male dogs are better hunting companions than younger dogs and female dogs says the author of a new study on the hunting ability and nutritional status of domestic dogs in lowland Nicaragua
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    Older dogs and male dogs are better hunting company than yonger and female dogs.
Natalie Mitten

Higgs data indicates finite life of universe › News in Science (ABC Science) - 0 views

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      Natalie Mitten on 19 Feb 13
       
      This is quite vague...there will assuredly be many catastrophes in the universe in the next tens of billions of years...so what?
  • "You change any of these parameters to the Standard Model (of particle physics) by a tiny bit and you get a different end of the universe," says Lyyken.
    • Natalie Mitten
      Natalie Mitten on 19 Feb 13
       
      This article mentions "calculations" and such but doesn't actually explain how scientists drew the conclusion...I'm seriously questioning the credibility of this article. 
Natalie Mitten

Drug overdose deaths up for 11th consecutive year - 0 views

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    • Natalie Mitten
      Natalie Mitten on 21 Feb 13
       
      I'm thinking that these studies are somewhat congruent with the new legalization of marijuana in Colorado. 
  • The University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora is considering a rule that would ban emergency doctors from prescribing more medicine for patients who say they lost their pain meds, Zane said.
    • Natalie Mitten
      Natalie Mitten on 21 Feb 13
       
      Will that really help things? This seems unfair to those who might be using the drugs responsibly and as prescribed. Additionally, the public isn't entirely to be blamed -- these are addictive substances PRESCRIBED BY DOCTORS. They probably aren't as educated or forewarned of the risks, due to social reinforcements and our trust in doctors. 
chrystopher9

Listening to Music While Studying Can Help | TakeLessons - 1 views

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  • It is widely accepted that the best environment for concentration is a quiet one; however the majority of students in the US say they prefer to study while listening to music, and in fact the highest achieving students are even guiltier of this.  Why do students do this?
  • se, to motivate themselves, to stay awake or to calm nerves… Whatever the reason, it’s important to find music that will serve your needs, while causing the least amount of distraction. The type of music a
  • type of music students report listening to while studying is popular music.  However, if a person chooses to listen to music
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    "Ah, the power of music! Recent research has found that fast-paced beats can increase your exercise intensity and slow, quiet music can even reduce stress."
Katie Stevenson

Child's Home Address Helps Predict Risk Of Readmission to Hospital - 1 views

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  • research in the American Journal of Public Health.
  • geographic social risk index
  • based on census measures of poverty, home values and number of adults with high school degrees,
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  • families likely to report financial or psychological hardship – both of which are linked to adverse asthma outcomes, says Andrew Beck, MD
  • t Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and lead author of the study.
  • could include enhanced care coordination, community health workers or help with better housing
  • Robert Kahn, MD,
  • help identify children admitted to the hospital with asthma who may need more aggressive, targeted assessments and/or interventions may prevent asthma attacks and reduce disparities,
  • increasing our ability to know a child’s likelihood of returning to the hospital
  • enhanced clinical care pathway right at the start of an admission.
  • readmissions is increasingly critical in the era of healthcare reform.”
  • (grouping households by geographic area
  • constructed the social risk index
  • assigned census tract regions
  • extreme poverty rates, median home values and high school graduation rate
  • 601 children hospitalized for asthma were evaluated and placed in one of three categories, or risk strata: low, medium or high risk.
  • 39 percent of all patients were rehospitalized or returned to the emergency room within 12 months.
  • low geographic risk, children in the high risk category were 80 percent more likely to be rehospitalized or revisit the emergency room
  • high-risk children had caregivers who were five times more likely to report two or more financial hardships in their households and three times more likely to report psychological distress.
  • medium-risk category were 30 percent more likely to be readmitted or return to the emergency room
  • . Poor, urban and minority children are at the highest risk for emergency room treatment and hospital admission
  • identification of children at increased risk could allow additional assessments and services to be put in place prior to discharge to improve patient outcomes
  • target and use scarce and overburdened hospital and community resources more efficiently.”
  • e to use the geographic social risk index to study other asthma outcomes and other conditions, such as diabetes mellitus.
  • introduction of geographic data into clinical care leads to more in-depth and reliable triage of patients.
  • helps link hospital- or community-based care to those patients most likely to benefit from it.
  • Katie Stevenson on 31 Oct 12
     
    Cincinnati Hospital finds knowing a child's address may tell if they are going to revisit or be readmitted into the hospital
Indea Armstrong

Significant skull differences between closely linked groups - 0 views

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      Indea Armstrong on 19 Oct 12
       
      I found it interesting that you can identify if a skulls a male or female. 
  • The differences were in the shape of the skull, not the size," says Dr. Ann Ross,
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      Indea Armstrong on 19 Oct 12
       
      According to Dr. Ann RossThe way of figuring out if the skull is a male or female, Is the shape not the size. 
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  • the women from Lisbon had broader noses and eyes that were spaced further apart.
    • Indea Armstrong
      Indea Armstrong on 19 Oct 12
       
      That's crazy that they can just look at the skull of a person who isn't no longer alive and figure these things out.
Mariah Russell

First direct evidence that ADHD is a genetic disorder: Children with ADHD more likely t... - 0 views

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  • First Direct Evidence That ADHD Is a Genetic Disorder: Children With ADHD More Likely to Have Missing or Duplicated Segments of DNA
  • ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder -- in other words, that the brains of children with the disorder differ from those of other children.
  • New research provides the first direct evidence that attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a genetic condition. Scientists at Cardiff University found that children with ADHD were more likely to have small segments of their DNA duplicated or missing than other children.
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  • "Too often, people dismiss ADHD as being down to bad parenting or poor diet. As a clinician, it was clear to me that this was unlikely to be the case. Now we can say with confidence that ADHD is a genetic disease and that the brains of children with this condition develop differently to those of other children."
  • The condition is highly heritable -- children with ADHD are statistically more likely to also have a parent with the condition and a child with an identical twin with ADHD has a three in four chance of also having the condition.
  • "Children with ADHD have a significantly higher rate of missing or duplicated DNA segments compared to other children and we have seen a clear genetic link between these segments and other brain disorders," explains Dr Nigel Williams. "These findings give us tantalising clues to the changes that can lead to ADHD."
  • ADHD is not caused by a single genetic change, but is likely caused by a number of genetic changes, including CNVs, interacting with a child's environment," explains Dr Kate Langley.
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