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...example, a large part of our visual system is color-blind—the parts that are evolutionarily older and are engaged in detecting motion and separation between figure and background, while the more primate-specific areas are color-selective, says Livingstone...
...Cambridge City Council uses a unique and complicated election system in which voters rank nine candidates. Those who are ranked first on 10 percent of ballots are declared elected. Any extra ballots they receive beyond the 10 percent quota are redistributed to the candidates marked next in preference on those excess ballots, and the process continues until all nine seats are filled...
Shrews, along with platypuses, are among the few venomous mammals, and they produce a toxin in modified salivary glands that enters their prey’s circulatory system when they bite, Hoekstra explained...
...There needs to be far more involvement by children and youth themselves, those in the system and children in general who care about what is happening with their peers,” he said...
Reimers said that, despite Harvard’s high spot in the ranking, there was much for America to learn from China’s education system, where schools, for instance, have a greater focus on reaching out to the public...