Glengarry Glen Ross speech. Babies' Language Learning Starts From The Womb. From their very first days, newborns' cries already bear the mark of the language their parents speak, reveals a new study published online in Current Biology. The findings suggest that infants begin picking up elements of what will be their first language in the womb, and certainly long before their first babble or coo. "The dramatic finding of this study is that not only are human neonates capable of producing different cry melodies, but they prefer to produce those melody patterns that are typical for the ambient language they have heard during their fetal life, within the last trimester of gestation," said Kathleen Wermke of the University of Würzburg in Germany.
"Contrary to orthodox interpretations, these data support the importance of human infants' crying for seeding language development. " Wermke's team recorded and analyzed the cries of 60 healthy newborns, 30 born into French-speaking families and 30 born into German-speaking families, when they were three to five days old. A skeptic’s guide to space exploration. By Jeff FoustMonday, June 30, 2008 For years, many have bemoaned the void created by the untimely death of Carl Sagan in 1996.
Sagan is missed not just for his scientific contributions but arguably more for his gifts as a scientific communicator, one who could share the mysteries and wonder of the universe with the general public (see “Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?” , The Space Review, July 26, 2004). However, that void has been filled, at least partially, in recent years by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. He has the academic credentials (director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York), several books and scores of magazines articles, and numerous television appearances, becoming a go-to guy for the mainstream media when they want to know more about the latest mission to Mars or whether Pluto should be considered a planet.
However, Tyson is not a carbon copy of Sagan, and addresses these issues in his own style. Apollo “necrophilia” Public interest or the lack thereof Why we explore. Simon. Griffin, Heinlein, and spaceflight. By Jeff FoustMonday, July 16, 2007 Editor’s Note: one of the keynote speakers at the Heinlein Centennial earlier this month in Kansas City was NASA administrator Mike Griffin. His speech, and the question-and-answer session that followed, provided a different insight on spaceflight than what might be offered for typical space industry or general public audiences. It also offered a rare opportunity to gauge the influence of one of the leading science fiction writers of the 20th century on the head of a 21st century space program.
What follows are excerpts of Griffin’s Heinlein Centennial speech taken from an unofficial transcript of the talk. Heinlein and Griffin’s interest in spaceflight I have a confession to make. And so, unlike maybe many of you, I didn’t become interested in space because of science fiction. On the link between science fiction and the public’s interest in space Heinlein’s morality So, Heinlein was a moralist, in my view, but what were his morals?
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