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Name: Mary
Country: United States
Gender: Female
Interests: collecting friends, Brasil, aRt, the Dresden Dolls, Jump Little Children, finding ridiculously fun looking things to do...
Occupation: Student
Industry: Art
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Member Since:
6/19/2003
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| There is a lunar eclipse happening right now. This is always a fun event and our friends here are throwing a party on a basketball court in its honor. Chapman U is probably the most beautiful school I've ever seen. It's totally new-money so it's very different from the Princeton, etc., but there is excellent design at every turn inside and out. I've met a lot of very chill people and some prohibitively large ego. No visit here would be complete without the sighting of a child of a celebrity on campus... I knew they were around here somewhere. It's been wonderful to spend quality time with my beloved sister. The real world is 3000 miles and less than 24 hours away.
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| "Baby Einstein" videos not so smart...http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1650352,00.html ...the research team found that with every hour per day spent watching baby DVDs and videos, infants learned six to eight fewer new vocabulary words than babies who never watched the videos. These products had the strongest detrimental effect on babies 8 to 16 months old, the age at which language skills are starting to form. "The more videos they watched, the fewer words they knew," says Christakis. "These babies scored about 10% lower on language skills than infants who had not watched these videos." ...As far as Christakis and his colleagues can determine, the only thing that baby videos are doing is producing a generation of overstimulated kids. "There is an assumption that stimulation is good, so more is better," he says. "But that's not true; there is such a thing as overstimulation." His group has found that the more television children watch, the shorter their attention spans later in life. "Their minds come to expect a high level of stimulation, and view that as normal," says Christakis, "and by comparison, reality is boring." | | |
| A couple of days ago I gave my first "pledge" to a public radio station. I dunno, it seems like an absurdly volvo-driving adult thing to do. I  my YRock. | | |
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