Here’s an odd thing I learnt the other day about language. If you teach a young child two languages at the same time, they learn them both as fast as any other child learns one. I wouldn’t have believed this, but I have several bi-lingual work colleagues with young kids and it’s true. TheirContinue reading “The Mysteries of Learning Two Languages”
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Three Hits For Science
The most interesting week in a long time for science, I think. First, the Austrian Academy of Sciences grow themselves a brain. Not in a jar as sci-fi would have it, but in a spinning bioreactor. The scientists say that this matches ‘closely but not perfectly’ brain development in the first nine weeks of foetalContinue reading “Three Hits For Science”
