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...abstract understanding of these categories of reality. They know that objects continue to exist even when you don't look at them and that they can't pass through barriers. Other psychologists--some of them her students--have documented when in the first year of life the other basic categories come online. With these scaffolds in place, babies can understand the world as they are exposed...
...functions in the brain like a yellow sticky Post-it note. It's the place we put things to recall over the short term. We use working memory when we look up a telephone number and remember it only long enough to dial. We use it on a more basic level to remember the thread of an argument while we are trying to make a point. A brain without working memory is like a computer without its RAM; its computational abilities are crippled, as they often are in people with diseases that affect the frontal lobe, such as cerebral palsy...
...often winding up in the emergency room or a hospital bed when they fail to follow their complicated medication regimen. If you are one of them, don't be surprised when your employer or health insurer introduces you to a specialist in the burgeoning field of disease management. The basic idea is relatively simple: led by a company called American Healthways, these newfangled Florence Nightingales, among them Lifemasters and Matria, help monitor the most at-risk patients...
...turn revived kalarippayat. Indian filmmakers, hoping to mimic the high-kicking fights and gravity-defying leaps in Jet Li's Romeo Must Die and Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, are hiring kalarippayat fighters and teachers like Kumar as stuntmen. They're even making sure Bollywood stars have basic training. "Even five years ago, Kerala martial arts had nearly died out," says Kumar, who with his two brothers runs C.V.N. Kalari Sangham in Calicut, among the best known schools in the country. "Now suddenly it is popular again and it's all because of these films." This time around...
...According to Krogh, the Danish tradition of designers starting out as cabinetmakers has been going out of fashion recently. Now potential designers generally go directly from high school to design school, where they are taught basic concepts from the outset. "I still feel we are building on the cabinetmaker tradition, with a close relationship to the material," says Krogh. "We're also trying to find new expressions such as form and aesthetic aspects...