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...have little rituals that they have to engage in just to make sure the game goes ok. They have to wear their lucky shirts or they have to eat chicken before every baseball match, things like that. There's a number of very famous ones - John McEnroe wouldn't step on a white line, David Beckham is notoriously superstitious, Tiger Woods has to wear red on a Sunday when he plays golf...
Myself and a number of colleagues around the word study infant development, the natural course of development before formal education has had the chance to step in. We're interested in to what extent is stuff built in, and to what extent culture and the environment play a role. What's been remarkable is how, over the past twenty years, our understanding has grown that babies have surprising capacities to interpret the world and make inferences about what they think is going on, in the physical world, about the nature of objects. They're doing all this kind of stuff...
...With Tintoretto, the harmony and serenity of Bellini are entirely a thing of the past. Figures whirl, somersault and lunge like darts in and out of the picture. The palette is iridescent, and at close range, the sketchy forms can dissolve into a tangle of near illegible, stutter-step brushstrokes. Tintoretto's portraits were more restrained - aristocratic clients expected to be offered to the world as paragons of poise. But any religious or mythological scene, he could turn into a costumed mosh...
...Jane Goody’s death, the idea of a funeral webcast over MySpace seems ever closer.The lifting of the ban is clarified with a clause that necessitates familial consent to film and photograph. This concession to privacy gives me hope that the lifting of the ban is a step forward instead of one backwards. Perhaps it will be those families who say “no” to the media that will truly catch the attention of an America that has forgotten what privacy means.—Staff writer Andrew F. Nunnelly can be reached at nunnelly@fas.harvard.edu...
...study’s results. “Something is happening within the first year or two of life that has long-term effects,” said Lo, who is also an assistant professor of nutrition at the School of Public Health. The next step for researchers, Taveras said, is to isolate the cause for the sort of rapid infant growth that can cause problems. “It could be overfeeding, it could be factors that arose before the child is even born, it could be genetics,” Taveras said. “We don?...