Tag: baby

• Baa Baa Black Sheep…

  Okay, I’ll admit I’m intrigued by investigations that attempt to prove things the rest of us simply take for granted. Things that seem so obvious, that I wonder why they ever extracted them from the background for analysis. When you live in a forest, why would you single out a tree? Do babies do better…

  gozzter

  April 12, 2017

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  baby, BBC news, Cambridge University, cloth monkey experiment, Dr. Victoria Leong, Harry Harlow, infant, mother, mother-baby interaction, nursery rhymes, Pacific wren

• The Problem of Freedom

  The rough, shadowed texture of a log fallen across a meandering stream, the scattered sparkles of the water as it murmurs briefly to a rock it passes, the deep, barely moving green of the leafy tunnel that shrouds the gently dancing blue beneath -these are what I know of freedom: permission to imagine, permission to…

  gozzter

  September 9, 2015

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  abstract, Alison Gopnik, baby, baby’s movements, baby’s thoughts, due date, Fetal distress, Freedom, Non stress test, NST, permission, problem of freedom, Robert Frost, The Philosophical Baby, ultrasound, Voltaire

• The Mistaken Identity

  Communication is a fascinating thing. It enables descriptions of the world in different sounds, different gestures, different expressions. A shrug of indifference in one culture is a greeting in another. A nod can convey a myriad of intentions -context is everything. Only the smile seems a common currency. As a gynaecologist, I am ruled by…

  gozzter

  September 3, 2015

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  baby, Cantonese, communication, culture, Gynaecology, language, pregnancy, pronunciation, referring doctor, Rosetta stone, smiles, translator, United Nations