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...Alexander Gordon ’06, says he enjoys going to the study pool during his free time, and that most studies “pay squat...

Author: By David K. Hausman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Test Your Brain for Bucks | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...infants arrive already equipped with some knowledge of the physical world and even rudimentary programming for math and language. Babylab director Sylvain Sirois has been putting these smart-baby theories through a rigorous set of tests. His conclusions so far tend to be more Piagetian: "Babies," he says, "know squat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: What Do Babies Know? | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

...babies bridge the gap between knowing squat and drawing triangles--a task Daniel's sister Lois, 2 1/2, is happily tackling as she waits for her brother? "Babies have to learn everything, but as Piaget was saying, they start with a few primitive reflexes that get things going," says Sirois. For example, hardwired in the brain is an instinct that draws a baby's eyes to a human face. From brain-imaging studies we also know that the brain has some sort of visual buffer that continues to represent objects after they have been removed--a lingering perception rather than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: What Do Babies Know? | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

...fact, the name of the city's newest fashionable eatery, a FuturePerfect, blazes from its backlit signboard in a cheerful boast. The brainchild of Frank Steffen, who also owns Shanghai's trendy Arch bar, a FuturePerfect is located down an alley off Huashan Road, where old men in pajamas squat against shikumen walls. The restaurant comprises a tastefully understated dining room-staffed by servers in gray bloomers-or courtyard seating. Choose the latter and you'll be dining beneath centuries-old camphor trees while gazing at the stars (smog permitting). The menu is European, seasonal and surprisingly affordable (the much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Futures Trading | 1/4/2007 | See Source »

...newest fashionable eatery, a FuturePerfect, blazes from its backlit signboard in a cheerful boast. The brainchild of Frank Steffen, who also owns Shanghai's trendy Arch[an error occurred while processing this directive] bar, a FuturePerfect is located down an alley off Huashan Road, where old men in pajamas squat against shikumen walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Futures Trading | 1/2/2007 | See Source »

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