| Thursday 02 / 11 |
Does your baby cry in French or German?
The wail of a newborn may sound the same to the ears of sleep-deprived parents the world over, but aion kinah according to scientists, that's not the case: Babies cry in the language their parents speak from the first days of life.
An international team of researchers said a study of 60 newborns suggested babies start to learn language in the womb, long before they utter their first coos or babbles -- and their wails can be distinguished according to the mother tongue.
French newborns tend to cry with a rising melody contour, while their German neighbors prefer a falling melody shape -- patterns which the researchers said fit with characteristic differences between the two languages.
Kathleen Wermke of the University of Wuerzburg in Germany, who conducted the aion gold study with French and American colleagues, said it showed newborns "are capable of producing different cry melodies" and that they prefer melodies in the pattern of the language they heard in the womb.
Wermke's team recorded 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.
Their analysis, published in journal Current Biology, revealed clear differences in the shape of the newborns’ cry melodies, based on their mother tongue.
Previous studies have shown that human fetuses can memorize sounds from the external world by the last three months of pregnancy and are particularly attuned to melodies in both music and language. Vocal imitation studies have also shown babies can match vowel sounds spoken by adults, but only from 12 weeks old.
Wermke's team said their research showed an "extremely early" impact of native language and confirmed that babies' cries are their first proper attempts to communicate specifically with their mothers.
"Newborns are probably highly motivated buy aion kina to imitate their mother's behavior in order to attract her and....foster bonding," they wrote. "Because melody contour may be the only aspect of their mother's speech that newborns are able to imitate, this might explain why we found melody contour imitation at that early age."
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| Wednesday 02 / 10 |
Ancient dialect extinct after last speaker dies
One of the world's oldest dialects, which traces its origins to tens of
thousands of years ago, has become extinct after the last person to
speak it died on a remote Indian aion kinah island.
Boa Sr, the 85-year-old last speaker of "Bo," was the oldest member of
the Great Andamanese tribe, R.C. Kar, deputy director of Tribal Health
in Andaman, told reporters on Friday.
She died last week in Port Blair, the capital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which were hit by a devastating tsunami in 2004.
"With the death of Boa Sr and the extinction of the Bo language, a
unique part of human society is now just a memory," said Stephen Corry,
director of Survival International, an organization that supports
tribes worldwide.
"Boa's loss is a bleak reminder that we must not allow this to happen
to the other tribes of the Andaman Islands," he said in a statement.
Kar said Bo was one of the ten dialects used by the Great Andamanese tribe.
According to Survival International, there are now only 52 members
surviving members of the tribe, which is aion gold thought to have lived on the
Andaman Islands for as many as 65,000 years, making them descendants of
one of the oldest cultures in the world.
The Great Andamanese had the biggest population of all the island tribes until the early 20th century.
Originally 10 distinct tribes, the Great Andamanese were 5,000-strong
when the British colonized the Andaman Islands in 1858. Most were
killed or died of diseases brought by the colonizers, Surival
International said.
The surviving Great Andamanese depend largely on the Indian government for handouts and alcohol abuse is rife.
The cluster of more than 550 Andaman and Nicobar islands, of which only
about three dozen are inhabited, are home to six tribes of Mongoloid
and African origin, who have lived there for thousands of years.
The current home of the Great Andamanese is Strait Island, a small island of Middle Andaman Region.
One of the world's oldest dialects, which traces its origins to tens of
thousands of years ago, has become extinct after the last person to
speak it died on a remote Indian island.
Boa Sr, the 85-year-old
last speaker of "Bo," was the oldest member of the Great Andamanese
tribe, R.C. Kar, deputy director of Tribal Health in Andaman, told
reporters on Friday.
She died last week in Port Blair, the capital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which were hit by a devastating tsunami in 2004.
"With
the death of Boa Sr and the extinction of the Bo language, a buy aion kina unique
part of human society is now just a memory," said Stephen Corry,
director of Survival International, an organization that supports
tribes worldwide.
"Boa's loss is a bleak reminder that we must not
allow this to happen to the other tribes of the Andaman Islands," he
said in a statement.
Kar said Bo was one of the ten dialects used by the Great Andamanese tribe.
According
to Survival International, there are now only 52 members surviving
members of the tribe, which is thought to have lived on the Andaman
Islands for as many as 65,000 years, making them descendants of one of
the oldest cultures in the world.
The Great Andamanese had the biggest population of all the island tribes until the early 20th century.
Originally
10 distinct tribes, the Great Andamanese were 5,000-strong when the
British colonized the Andaman Islands in 1858. Most were killed or died
of diseases brought by the colonizers, Surival International said.
The surviving Great Andamanese depend largely on the Indian government for handouts and alcohol abuse is rife.
The
cluster of more than 550 Andaman and Nicobar islands, of which only
about three dozen are inhabited, are home to six buy aion kinah tribes of Mongoloid
and African origin, who have lived there for thousands of years.
The current home of the Great Andamanese is Strait Island, a small island of Middle Andaman Region.
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| Tuesday 02 / 09 |
The expert said that the cold wave and the global warming are not cont
An undated file photo shows a man skis. Beijing had its coldest morning in almost 40 years and its biggest snowfall since 1951. Britain is aion gold suffering through its longest cold snap since 1981. And freezing weather is gripping the Deep South, including Florida's orange groves and beaches. Whatever happened to global warming?
Beijing had its coldest morning in almost 40 years and its biggest snowfall since 1951. Britain is suffering through its longest cold snapsince 1981. And freezing weather is gripping the Deep South, including Florida's orange groves and beaches.
Whatever happened to global warming?
Such weather doesn't seem to fit with warnings from scientists that the Earth is warming because of greenhouse gases. But experts say the cold snap doesn't disproveglobal warming at all - it's just a blipin the long-term heating trend.
"It's part of natural variability," said Gerald Meehl, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. With global warming, he said, "we'll still
aion kinah have record cold temperatures. We'll just have fewer of them."
Deke Arndt of the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., noted that 2009 will rank among the 10 warmest years for Earth since 1880.
Scientists say man-made climate change does have the potential to cause more frequent and more severe weather extremes, such as heat waves, storms, floods, droughts and even cold spells. But experts did not connect the current frigid blastto climate change.
So what is going on?
"We basically have seen just a big outbreak of Arctic air" over populated areas of the Northern Hemisphere, Arndt said. "The Arctic air has really turned itself looseon us."
In the atmosphere, large rivers of air travel roughly west to east around the globe between the Arctic and the tropics. This air flow acts like a fence to keep Arctic air confined.
But recently, this air flow has become bent into a pronouncedzigzag pattern, meandering north and south. If you live in a place where it brings air up from the south, you get warm weather. In fact, record highs were reported this week in Washington state and Alaska.
But in the eastern United States, like some other unlucky parts aion kina
of the globe, Arctic air is swoopingdownfrom the north. And that's how you get a temperature of 3 degrees in Beijing, a reading of minus-42 in mainland Norway, and 18 inches of snow in parts of Britain, where a member of Parliament who said the snow "clearly indicates a cooling trend" was jeered by colleagues.
The zigzag pattern arises naturally from time to time, but it is not clear why it's so strong right now, said Michelle L'Heureux, a meteorologist at the Climate Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The center says the pattern should aion power leveling begin to weaken in a week or two.
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| Monday 02 / 08 |
Winter warmth
Winter gives us the opportunity to stay inside and look outside, as we're not called aion gold outdoors to enjoy the warmth and sunshine. Snuggle up in the sofa, put a blanket over you, have a cup of hot cocoa, and enjoy the observations on this precious season…
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: It is the time for home.
During the winter I am content，or try to think I am. There is a wonderful joy in leaving behind the noisy city streets and aion kinahstarting out along the white road that leads across the hills. With each breath of the sharp, reviving air one seems to inhale new life. A peace as evident as the sunshine on the fields takes possession of one's inner being. The trivial cares are driven away by the first sweep of wind that comes straight from the mountains. The intense silence that broods over the snow-bound land is a conscious blessing from the nature.
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter: Who would think that those aion kina branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
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| Sunday 02 / 07 |
NBA star player physical quality PK
There isno doubt that NBA players are always on the track of
progress-faster,stronger and higher. Expert Steven Gerrard-Naxisike aion gold named the top fivephysical strongmen in today’s NBA League。
No 1 LeBron James。
Perhaps no single player in the history of NBA can ever surpass
LeBron James in physical conditions. With 6 feet and 8 inches in
height, 260 pounds in weight, and besides, covered by strong muscles
allover, LebBron is undoubtedly one of the most physically offensive
players in the NBA. What’s more, his playing skills are also as
greatas guards. His explosive power and jumping ability are amazing.
Everytime he dunks, his eyes have already reached the height of the
ring. Toput aion kinah it plainly, let James play NFL tomorrow, and there is absolutelyno problem for him to do that。
No 2 Dwight Howard
I wonder how many 7-foot-tall guys possess a 40-inch vertical jumping
ability. For two consecutive years at the NBA dunk contest, we have
seen this big guy’s superior jumping ability and wonderful ideas. Look
at his robust muscles all over! Someone even says,“Superman” can lift a
weight of 365 pounds。
No 3 Josh Smith
This guy is so explosive in the first-step take-off. If he
participates inthe Olympic Games, I’m sure he can manage to get a
medal in the longjump. Alley-oop is the subject he has at his fingers.
With enough strength in waist, 6 feet and 9 inches in height, plus 240
pounds ofbody weight, he makes it very difficult for his opponents to
defendhim. If you are a small guard, then be careful, for Smith will
blockyour ball far away each time you shoot。
No 4 Nate Robinson
Ibelieve whoever has watched the 2009 Dunk Contest will be deeply
impressed by Robinson’s physique. 5 feet and 9 inches tall, 180
poundsin weight, his vertical jump ability reaches amazingly 44 inches
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Inaddition to getting on the basketball court to show us what he’s
got,Robinson also broke Washington's state record of 110-meter
hurdles.When at college, he was the school football team's starting
flanker。
No 5 Shannon Brown
Brown'sjumping ability is so highly praised by Kobe Bryant, who even
said:"On the court, Shannon jumps even higher than Jordan and me." The
factis, since he wore Lakers’ shirt, Brown has become a synonym
fordunker. He fancys the basket almost bigotedly and always has the
courage to dunk over the head of those big opponents. According aion power leveling to others, Brown can jump 45 inches vertically
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