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...something that's out of reach. And indeed, the kids were of an age - 2 1/2 years old - where it's widely known that they do perform about as well as chimps in such tests. So for example, the scientists would hide a treat of some kind - a toy, or some food - behind a box, while the test subjects looked on. The kids, chimps and orangs would have to be sophisticated enough to know that the object disappearing from view didn't mean it stopped existing, and had to be able to figure out where it had gone. All three...
Angelique and Robby Ledoux freaked when they found three recalled toys among their daughter's playthings. The New York City couple had already been through the pet-food recall with their cat last March, and they'd tossed out suspect tubes of imported toothpaste after a recall in June. This was worse. "At 22 months, Jade still sometimes sucks on her toys," says Angelique. So the LeDouxes sprang into action. Robby bought lead-testing kits the next day and screened every toy in the nursery. Angelique arranged for Jade to get a blood test for lead poisoning...
...toy recalls have triggered a wave of phone calls from other worried parents and pediatricians, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). But whether more kids actually have elevated blood levels of lead won't be known until October at the earliest, when the CDC updates its quarterly data. High levels of lead interfere with the development of a child's nervous system. Lead can cause cognitive losses, learning disabilities, behavioral problems, delayed growth and seizures...
...were to drive past Australian science's smartest new toy, it would be easy to mistake the large, circular building at 800 Blackburn Road, Clayton, for just another office complex. But inside, something spectacular is being produced - light a million times brighter than the sun, light to which scientists from around the country are now drawn like moths. They're queuing to use the Australian Synchrotron, the largest such device in the Southern Hemisphere and one of about 40 worldwide. Researchers hope it will provide discoveries and answers across almost every field of science - whether it's seeing how insects...
...Facebook is cleanly designed and has a classy, upmarket feel to it--a whiff of the Ivy League still clings. People tend to use their real names on Facebook. They also declare their sex, age, whereabouts, romantic status and institutional affiliations. Identity is not a performance or a toy on Facebook; it is a fixed and orderly fact. Nobody does anything secretly: a news feed constantly updates your friends on your activities. On Facebook, everybody knows...