So Why Would a Pigeon Stand on One Leg (or Limp Without Hurting)?

Can A Table Stand On One Leg? Critical and Ludological Thoughts on Star Wars: Galaxies

O10: Why Preschool Education Programs Is So Important

Neurological development is largely a result of the learning that takes place starting at birth and during the earliest years of life. Child Care and Preschool Education Programs are key to predicting ultimate success in school and life. Children who attend preschool or other early education programs have enhanced cognitive, verbal, and social development (which is maintained into the first few...

Would you rather be a 'birth' or a 'genetic' mother? If so, how much?

Judges face difficult choices when the birth and genetic mothers of a child are separate people who dispute maternal access; the views of the general population may help them. Fifty women were asked whether, if they were infertile and could have only one child, they would prefer to be birth mothers (to carry a baby which was not genetically theirs) or genetic mothers (to have another woman carr...

Why Would You Trust B ?

The use of formal methods provides confidence in the correctness of developments. Yet one may argue about the actual level of confidence obtained when the method itself – or its implementation – is not formally checked. We address this question for the B, a widely used formal method that allows for the derivation of correct programs from specifications. Through a deep embedding of the B logic i...

Are Greebles Special? Or, Why the Fusiform Fish Area Would Be Recruited for Sword Expertise (if We Had One)

The fusiform face area (FFA) has commonly been deemed an area specialized for face processing. Many recent studies have challenged this view by showing that the FFA also responds to stimuli from domains in which the subject is an expert. We have developed neurocomputational models to explore the question of why an area initially devoted to face processing would later be recruited for other doma...