Cooking a stir fry for tea and singing a little nonsense song to myself.
Daughter №2 looks up from her Raspberry Pi: Congratulations, Dad!
(sarcastic voice) the Americans have ruined date formatting, and now you've ruined the theme tune to Ponyo!
Ponyo, Ponyo, you're an edamame bean
You're a little girl and you're small and green
I said it was nonsense.
In total across the distances, the jet dryer spread 20 times more viruses than the warm dryer and more than 190 times more than the paper towels.
Using a Dyson hand dryer is like setting off a viral bomb in a bathroom
Fascinating stuff. People who don't understand Arabic, but have memorised the Qur'an by rote, are better at spotting grammatical errors in Arabic than Arabic language learners who have studied the grammatical rules and inflections in question.
Statistical Learning and the Qur’an — The Ling Space
Thoughts:
To me this implies that our brains have built-in pattern-matching and rule-inferring mechanisms that perform better than our conscious
minds.
The abstract doesn't say anything about individual learning styles. I hope this isn't used as the basis of one-size-fits-all teaching in the future.
Maybe 48 isn't a big enough sample?
