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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...
Dear Ms. Laura Miller—About five and a half years ago today, I read an article of yours in the New York Times Sunday Book Review. Unlike the usual stuff of newspapers, which people read on Monday and by Sunday have moved on from, your article has had unusual staying power. In fact, it has remained with me, it has haunted me, until today—for six years of my total of 20, about a third of my lifetime! But today, today, I am going to exorcise your ghostly grip.You see, in the article that you wrote...
...sculptor, a performance artist, a video artist, and an installation artist—or that his art has been qualified as both Dada and post-minimalist. His work consciously eludes labels. It is at once formal and multidisciplinary, static and interactive. “I am interested in making stuff that I, and other people, can’t categorize,” he says. And as Biggers engages the viewer with innovative forms, he asks them to consider the very basis with which they understand his art.Born in Los Angeles in 1970 and currently based in New York, Biggers...
...average college student's score has gone up 20% since 1983, and scores in the dangerous over-20 range have nearly doubled. "No one ever talks about how much they like history on MySpace. They talk about how hot they are," Twenge said. Then she said some other stuff, but unfortunately I stopped listening when she told me I was in the index of her book. Page 106. Check...
...worked 2.1 scoreless innings, allowing only two hits while striking out three and walking none.“Today was the first time I really felt comfortable on the mound all year,” Hulse said. “I felt like I had all of my stuff, so I was pretty excited about [my effort].”Hulse’s teammates also took note of the performance, as Douglas praised the rookie’s ability to mix pitches.“Conner’s a good pitcher, so whenever he?...