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...know that they’re not just saying that this array looks like this much stuff,” Barth said. “They are actually abstracting the number of items present and they are making their computations over numbers rather than over something directly perceptual...
Researchers conducted four tests on five-year-old preschool children, according to co-author Elizabeth S. Spelke, who is Berkman Professor of Psychology. In one test studying comparison abilities, subjects were shown an array of blue dots on a laptop screen, Spelke wrote in an e-mail. The blue dots were obscured, and then a cluster of red dots appeared. The children were asked if there were more blue or red dots...
...When it began in 1993, the first UFC was meant to be a gimmicky showcase for Brazilian-style jujitsu (and its superiority to other fighting styles), but it quickly devolved into a circus. Wild audiences screamed for matchups of pugilists against wrestlers against kickboxers, a Final Fantasy--video-game array of combatants, except for the very real blood that spattered on the mat of the octagon...
...that at death the two go their separate ways. While the spirit journeys to paradise, the po remains in the tomb. There, it needs the same kinds of company and comforts that it enjoyed in life, which the mingqi were designed to provide. The Cernuschi displays a vast array of these once-buried companions-dancers, musicians, cooks, soldiers and guardians, as well as ducks, birds and horses. These animated figures, along with the museum's glazed models of forts and bas-relief fragments from tomb walls, provide an extraordinary glimpse of Chinese life some 2,000 years ago: how people...
Among the $200,000 that the center shelled out to students last year, it provided grants for 11 undergraduates to teach English and other subjects in Latin America and Africa. It also funded an array of student organizations, including the development-focused magazine Bhumi, which is edited by undergrads...