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Cohen Kadosh may not have the solution, but it turns out he does have a pretty good grasp of the problem. For the first time ever, he and others at UCL have figured out how to induce dyscalculia - temporarily - in people with normal mathematical ability. That may not sound very useful. But in doing so, the UCL researchers have pinpointed the part of the brain they believe is responsible for humans' intuitive sense of magnitude - or what makes a number...
...self-professed skill for remembering images with his ability to build tension, Beah highlights the effects of a brutal civil war that left a mark on anyone it touched. A child who loved hip hop and performed interpretative dances to the likes of LL Cool J, Beah lived a normal life that was interrupted by rebel soldiers who forced him to wander from town to town with his friends in search of safety. After his parents were killed by the rebels, Beah was forced into the army at gunpoint, constantly reminded about his parents’ murder and fed drugs...
...spotlight. She's smart, too, likes social studies best, and especially learning about different cultures in far-off lands. Crouched on a mat in a refugee camp on Sri Lanka's east coast, flicking the pages of a schoolbook, pencil by her side, she looks like a normal kid. And then you spot it: Jeevatharsini has no left arm. Through the hole in her dress where her upper arm should join her shoulder, a stump is just visible, the skin slightly puckered where the surgeon has stretched it back across the bone to stitch it together...
...looked at first like a random bunch of data points, a sprinkling of outliers beyond the curve of normal human experience. But when you stepped back, a pattern emerged. What these personal turns had in common was the apprehension that, well, we're all connected. Everything leans on something, is propped up by something--is both dependent and depended...
...Harvard Medical School instructor Emily Oken, discovered that children whose mothers gained at least the recommended amount of weight during pregnancy were four times more likely to be overweight at age three, compared to those whose mothers gained less. The recommended weight gain for women with a normal body mass index (BMI) is 25 to 35 pounds. This number varies depending on the BMI of the expecting mother. The study is published in the April issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Oken and her research team monitored 1,044 pregnant women in the Boston area and compiled...