Read the Science Creative Quarterly's list of 15 statements that are as close to being true as we can get without invoking dogma. You won't learn much, but I might win an iPod, allowing my wife and me easy access to our music collection without having to figure out a way to keep all those CDs easily accessible, but still out of reach of our 10-month-old son.
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Morality and convention are so mired in culture that it may seem near impossible to determine the extent to which biology and environment give rise to it.
Although even the youngest infants have some ability to remember the past, this ability increases in both its reliability and its "temporal extent" with age. Such differences could result from changes in any of memory's constituent processes, including encoding, consolidation, or retrieval.
Wal-Mart scares me on the best of days, but not quite like this.
Kids love robots. I have a three-year-old friend who can identify the 1950s cult icon Robbie the Robot at 20 paces. My own son Jim could do an impressive multi-voiced impression of R2D2 by age five.
The list is a rather odd mixture of verifiable scientific statements and vague moral platitudes.