Category: One
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Counting parts. Seeing the whole. Small prejudices… [Against numbers?!]
We can assume that children learn to count starting with one and followed by the lists of numbers in ascending order of cardinality (one, two, three). But besides numbers, in languages there are more words that express quantity such as all, some, most, none, etc., the so-called quantifiers. A recent study into childhood language in…
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Reach the clouds.
Colossal clouds cloak the surface of Venus, making it difficult for researchers to probe its secrets. One way astronomers have peered through the haze is with the European Space Agency’s Venus Express satellite, which orbited the veiled planet from 2006 until 2014. Data collected by the craft revealed how features on the surface, like mountains,…
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Babies imitating. Not.
For decades, there have been studies suggesting that human babies are capable of imitating facial gestures, hand gestures, facial expressions, or vocal sounds right from their first weeks of life after birth. But, based on new evidence, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on May 5, 2016 now say that just isn't…
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Dancing…
Coupled oscillations: A weird phenomenon which leads to the things in the cosmos being in harmony with one another. (1) The wisdom of the cosmos lies in the most obvious things. Watch the clocks on your wall. Watch the moon as it circles around the Earth. Everything is not just One. It is dancing as…
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Bacteria mind games…
By tinkering with the gut’s bacterial residents, scientists have changed the behavior of lab animals and small numbers of people. Microbial meddling has turned anxious mice bold and shy mice social. Rats inoculated with bacteria from depressed people develop signs of depression themselves. And small studies of people suggest that eating specific kinds of bacteria…
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