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...published in the forthcoming issue of the European Journal of Developmental Psychology, he and Jackson pour cold water over recent experiments that claim to have observed innate or precocious social cognition skills in infants. His own experiments indicate that a baby's fascination with physically impossible events merely reflects a response to stimuli that are novel. Data from the eye tracker and the measurement of the pupils (which widen in response to arousal or interest) show that impossible events involving familiar objects are no more interesting than possible events involving novel objects. In other words, when Daniel has seen...
...patient stubbornly working to rehab after surgery, in a child practicing an instrument or struggling to create, a mind or will, clearly separate, hovers under the machinery, forcing it toward a goal. It's wonderful to see, such tangible evidence of that fine thing's power over the mere clumps of particles that, however pretty, will eventually clump differently and vanish...
...nimbly adjusts production for major customers like JCPenney based on weekly sales results. In a practice linked to the "fast fashion" trend, retailers can send orders to TAL each week. TAL then ships out the product in four days or less--emergency orders can be rushed through in a mere four hours. TAL sorts the goods into boxes for shipment to each individual retail store, rather than to a warehouse. "We don't call ourselves a manufacturing company," says TAL managing director Harry Lee. "We call ourselves a service provider...
When the scientists compared the TMS data on the two groups--those who actually tickled the ivories and those who only imagined doing so--they glimpsed a revolutionary idea about the brain: the ability of mere thought to alter the physical structure and function of our gray matter. For what the TMS revealed was that the region of motor cortex that controls the piano-playing fingers also expanded in the brains of volunteers who imagined playing the music--just as it had in those who actually played...
...That explanation will eventually come out, most probably at his State Bar hearing in May, but for many people, a mere explanation won't be enough to repair the damage they believe he's done to this city, to this university and to its students. "This whole time, it just seemed a little ridiculous that he was pushing on with a case with so little evidence," says senior Alexander Danielides. "But I'm not surprised [that he's removing himself from the case.] I think it's something that should have happened a long time ago. And I think...