How children learn their first words

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New research by a team of University of Pennsylvania psychologists is helping to overturn the dominant theory of how children learn their first words, suggesting that it occurs more in moments of insight than gradually through repeated exposure.

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Tantalizing photos of Titan, Enceladus, and
Saturn

post from Planetary Society Weblog on 23 May 2011 03:23:44 PM. © Planetary Society Weblog

It figures. I just start a three-week trip, with my only computer a diminutive Netbook, and guess what's just been radioed across the 1.3 billion kilometers separating us and Saturn? A set of photos that should become -- when properly processed -- an iconic image from Cassini's fourteen-year mission to the Saturn system. As Cassini watched on May 21, Saturn's largest moon, smog-shrouded Titan, transited Saturn's rings. Then it crossed ....

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Tantalizing photos of Titan, Dione, Tethys, and
Saturn

post from Planetary Society Weblog on 23 May 2011 03:23:44 PM. © Planetary Society Weblog

EDIT 22:31 UTC: Ooops. I misidentified a moon -- two moons, actually. These images contain Dione and Tethys but not Enceladus. Thanks, Jason, for the correction, and apologies for my mistake! It figures. I just start a three-week trip, with my only computer a diminutive Netbook, and guess what's just been radioed across the 1.3 billion kilometers separating us and Saturn? A set of photos that should become -- when properly processed -- an ....

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New cell culture technique for exploring complex
biological problems

post from Canadian BioTechnologist2.0 on 23 May 2011 03:10:52 PM. © Canadian BioTechnologist2.0

A Canadian research team has developed an automated microfluidic cell culture platform to monitor the growth, survival and responses of hundreds of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) at the single cell level. This new tool allows scientists to study multiple temporally varying culture conditions simultaneously and to gain new insights on the growth factor requirements for [...]

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Zoologger: Clone army steals genes from other
species

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Asian clams don't usually bother with sex, but they do occasionally commandeer eggs and genes from their neighbours

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Losing Momentum

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Amazon RainforestCredit: Asociación de Capitanes Indígenas Yaigojé ApaporisWhat we like to call the Boreal Forest?s ?sister?, the Amazon, is an amazingly large and ecologically diverse region, and one where several boreal-breeding birds like the[...]

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Nano-coatings for Scientific Research

post from Science Quick Picks on 23 May 2011 02:12:18 PM. © Science Quick Picks

Liquid repellent nano coating is a technology which allows surfaces to be liquid repellent without changing their look or feel. They can be applied to a wide range of products and can add significant value for product manufacturers and scientific researchers alike. With consumer products such as textiles for shoes or swimwear, or coatings for [...]

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Nano-coatings for Scientific Research

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I've had enough

post from Pharyngula on 23 May 2011 01:48:12 PM. © Pharyngula

This just isn't right. Jen reports that women atheists are being described as "pretty" at conferences. This has got to stop. It's discriminatory and rude.

I am really annoyed that we guys are being left out. Jen even says that she wouldn't "stoop to suggesting we need to recruit hot guys to lure in the ladies to solve our gender problem", which is a disgraceful slap in the face to all of us hot guys. I'm going to have to insist that from now on, whenever anyone is tempted to discuss the virtue to the atheist movement of having pretty young women on our side, that they also mention ME as an example of lovely godless eye candy who attracts people to join our organizations, for balance. If they're doing a presentation, I'm willing to give them permission to use this photo to titillate the audience.

GODLESS EYE CANDY!

I think that should do the trick. There's no need to include a link to this site, or mention anything I've said or written, or even bring up my name — just flash the picture, leer a little bit, and imply that this is what awaits the infidels when they sign up for the cause.

Because, after all, this has long been the atheists' prime recruiting strategy: using gorgeous faces to attract the shallow, superficial people who don't think much. That's why The Humanist magazine is so hard to distinguish from People, and why Free Inquiry has photo spreads just like Playboy.

Although, technically, using my image may not equalize the reprehensible sexist bias since I was, after all, the most influential female atheist of 2009.

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One more reason to despise Ben Stein

In addition to being a Republican, a creationist, a bad economist, and a tiresome one-note character actor, he's also a rape apologist. I thought he'd hit bottom with Expelled, but I think he does have a real talent for finding a way to spiral ever downwards.

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Weather satellites capture shots of volcanic
plume blasting through clouds

[Note: at the bottom of this post is a gallery of volcano pictures taken from space.]Just in case you forgot that the Earth is one of the most geologically active worlds in the solar system*, the Icelandic volcano Grimsvötn has sent a very loud[...]

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