Paul to Perry: New glasses not working

KKK membership sinks 2 Florida cops

Where has all the light in the universe gone?

Infants Begin Learning Speech Mechanics Long Before Their First Word; Speaking To Them Early Is Key To Language Development

Virginia dad claims African country for daughter so she can be real princess

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Cyber self-harm: Why do people troll themselves online? -- "9% [of students] had anonymously cyberbullied themselves."

Love hormone 'helps autistic brain' -- oxytocin

Sounds are sound among dyslexics, but access may lag, study finds -- "[T]he white matter tracts connecting the phoneme area to a part of the brain that contains the Broca's area, ( Read more... )

English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet

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How Birds and Babies Learn to Talk -- I swear I'd seen a similar study two or more years ago, where the scientists played disjointed bird "syllables" to isolated chicks. Once introduced back amongst the general population, the chicks could not communicate with the others because their songs were so different. I guess that isn't about movable ( Read more... )

Man's murder plot recorded on phone call after he butt-dials 911 -- Even worse than the previous story!

Poverty as a Childhood Disease -- "Think for a moment of poverty as a disease, thwarting growth and development, robbing children of the healthy, happy futures they might otherwise expect." (NYT)

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Hashimoto's thyroiditis can affect quality of life: Even when thyroid gland function is normal -- "[Researchers] report that women with higher levels of anti-thyroid antibody had a significantly higher number of symptoms, even though their levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)--a measure of thyroid function--did not differ from TSH levels ( Read more... )

Certain parts of the brain activated in people who heard tailored health messages and quit smoking -- dorsomedial prefrontal cortex

NYU researchers identify neural circuits used in processing basic linguistic phrases -- "Surprisingly [...], "Broca's" and "Wernicke's" areas appeared to play no role in the comprehension of [...] basic phrases. ( Read more... )