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How we change what others think, believe, feel and do. JSTOR. Scirus - for scientific information. 100 Time-Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars. While burying yourself in the stacks at the library is one way to get some serious research done, with today’s technology you can do quite a bit of useful searching before you ever set foot inside a library.

100 Time-Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars

Undergraduates and grad students alike will appreciate the usefulness of these search engines that allow them to find books, journal articles and even primary source material for whatever kind of research they’re working on and that return only serious, academic results so time isn’t wasted on unprofessional resources. Note: Visit our updated list for the latest in academic search engines. General Start off your research with one of these more general academic search engines. Intute: Use this website’s search tools to find the best and most reliable sites to start your research. Meta Search Want to search it all at once? Dogpile: Search Google, Yahoo, Bing and more at once with this great search engine.

Databases and Archives Books and Journals Science Math and Technology Social Science. FilesTube - Search & Download Files. 100 Extensive University Libraries from Around the World that Anyone Can Access. Universities house an enormous amount of information and their libraries are often the center of it all.

100 Extensive University Libraries from Around the World that Anyone Can Access

You don't have to be affiliated with any university to take advantage of some of what they have to offer. From digital archives, to religious studies, to national libraries, these university libraries from around the world have plenty of information for you. Digital Libraries Capturing images of manuscripts, art, and artifacts, digital libraries are an excellent way of both preserving the past and sharing it with everyone. Harvard University Library. International Digital Libraries These digital libraries either have a focus on a culture other than that of the United States or are housed in another country. The Digital South Asia Library. Texts These libraries offer books or texts for you to read online and free of charge. Universal Digital Library. Medical Libraries These libraries offer medical information for both the professional and the lay person.

Welch Medical Library. Questia, Your Online Research Library. The Seven Steps of the Research Process. Open Yale Courses. Why babies are geniuses at grammar. My 3-year-old son, Simon, sees no point in the to be verb.

Why babies are geniuses at grammar

"This my Superman costume," he says. "Where my Batman boot? " I've always assumed he's just making a small-child's mistake, and if I don't correct him, that's mostly because it's too much bother. According to a new book by the Yale linguist Charles Yang, however, Simon is mirroring the grammar of a different language. Hebrew doesn't bother with is or are. Like almost everything in linguistics, Yang's idea stems from Noam Chomsky's theory that the human capacity for language is innate. The idea is a clever one. Still, Chomsky praised Yang's work and book via e-mail, and Yang's ideas may explain some of the speech patterns of small children. Consider this example of handicapping a child's speech development: In her book The Nurture Assumption, Judith Rich Harris tells the story of a 1933 experiment that a psychology professor and his wife conducted on their child.

Some parents address this problem creatively. Khan Academy. Dog IQ Test. (adapted from The Intelligence of Dogs by Stanley Cohen) Test 1 - Problem Solving Place treat under soup can.

Dog IQ Test

Scoring: 5 Dog gets treat in 0-5 seconds 4 Dog gets treat in 5-15 seconds 3 Dog gets treat in 16-30 seconds 2 Dog gets treat in 31-60 seconds 1 Dog tries to get treat and fails 0 Dog shows no interest Test 2 - Problem Solving Quickly throw a large towel over the dog's head and shoulders. 5 Dog gets free in 0-15 seconds 4 Dog gets free in 16-30 seconds 3 Dog gets free in 31-60 seconds 2 Dog gets free in 1-2 minutes 1 Dog doesn't get free within 2 minutes. How Language Works (Edition 3.0): Table of Contents.