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#development
Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Folic acid and the neural tube
It’s vital that this neural tube develop properly. If it doesn’t, the baby could have a protruding spinal cord or a tumor near his lower back, a condition known as spina bifida. Or the baby could grow without a complete head, a rare condition known as anencephaly. This is why…
Embryos still carry our evolutionary past
Fortunately, most babies’ brains form just fine. The brain end of the neural tube continues its construction project by creating bulges of cells that look like complex coral formations. These eventually form the large structures of the brain. Before the first month, the baby’s…
Migrating neurons like loosed bloodhounds
Cell migration reminds me of when tracking bloodhounds are suddenly loosed from the sheriff’s truck to pick up the scent of a criminal. Neurons bolt out of their ectodermal cages, crawling over one another, sniffing out molecular cues, pausing, trying out different pathways…
Fetuses turn to the outside world in late pregnancy
So the questions for prying parents become: What do fetuses know, and when do they know it? When is your baby capable of sensing, say, taps on your belly? The developmental principle to remember is this: The brain spends the first half of pregnancy setting up its…
Newborn sleep is nothing like adult sleep
The central fact of newborn sleep is that it is nothing like adult sleep. Instead of gradual cycles of descent and ascent, newborns have only two speeds, christened by sleep researcher Richard Ferber as “active sleep” and “quiet sleep.” Both speeds are established in the womb…
Brook's law
Fred Brooks' law
What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.
Citation Indexes In Sociological And Historical Research
Costructing historical maps of science
My specific interest in citation data for historical research has focused on the role of the computer in constructing historical “maps.” The development of many sophisticated computer programs employing the critical path methodology for the Project Evaluation Review Technique…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
Science can show us how opinions come to existence
From this world of conception it is in the power of science to release us only to a slight extent—and this is all that could be wished—inasmuch as it cannot eradicate the influence of hereditary habits of feeling, but it can light up by degrees the stages of the development of…
Rdf Primer
URIrefs make shared vocabularies possible
Using URIrefs as subjects, predicates, and objects in RDF statements supports the development and use of shared vocabularies on the Web, since people can discover and begin using vocabularies already used by others to describe things, reflecting a shared understanding of those…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Commitments are the heart of our influence
At the very heart of our Circle of Influence is our ability to make and keep commitments and promises. The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity. It is also the…