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Tag Archives: University of Chicago

READ EM’ MATH AT BEDTIME

HEARING MATH stories is beneficial for kids, just as hearing bedtime tales promotes kids acquiring reading skills. The payoff is especially dramatic in families with math-anxious parents. Proof positive of … Continue reading

October 25, 2015 · 2 Comments

ON BILINGUAL TROLLEY ACCIDENTS

DO OUR morals depend on which language we’re speaking? Can something be ethically acceptable in a second language, but not in our native tongue? Researchers in cognitive sciences say “yes,” … Continue reading

June 24, 2014 · 2 Comments