Evening Survey: February 7, 2011
Here are today’s must-reads! Flaming dinosaur by Greg Broadmore! Model spacecraft demonstrates the real-world principles behind a tractor beam Joseph Shoer of Cornell University has built a levitating model spacecraft to demonstrate how a tractor beam could potentially work in real life. In the video, Shoer uses a “ludicrous” neodymium magnet to manipulate his non-ferromagnetic…
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Without language, numbers make no sense
People need language to fully understand numbers. This discovery – long suspected, and now backed by strong evidence – may shed light on the way children acquire their number sense. Image via CJ Burton/Corbis Previous studies of Amazon tribes who lack words for numbers greater than three – or, in the case of the Pirahã,…
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Bob Holmes - New Scientist
