Negative Space: children
- Acquisition/Development of Morphology: Specific Aspects of Noun- and Verb-Phrases
- Beginning late in the second year of life, and speeding up in the third through fifth years, children undergo vast changes in their use of language, venturing from single word holophrases and paired words to actual grammatical morphemes and the application of morphological rules. The order of acquisition of these rules seems to vary little within languages, and follows very similar patterns.
- Across the River and into the Trees
- Liquor flowed easily across the border between Canada and Detroit. One way or another the liquor was going to get across, so the police joined in for a piece of the take. Prohibition was a jobs program for criminals, employing tens of thousands of people to bring liquor to Michigan. And in a taste of things to come, free from the law sellers began targeting schoolchildren.
- Apple’s spinning mirror: exploiting children for dictatorships
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Apple has decided on “child porn” as the root password to disable privacy on their phones. But the system they’re using appears to be mostly worthless at detecting the exploitation of children, and very useful for detecting dissent from authoritarian governments.
- Beer as a Locus of Value among the West African Kofyar
- Robert McC. Netting sees no drinking problem among the Kofyar, who begin drinking before they are weaned. They mark their calendar by the brewing period and find beer at the end of the rainbow.
- Cerebus the Gopher
- Cerebus the Gopher is my personal Internet site, dedicated to comic books, role-playing games, and information about drug prohibition, as well as a bit of information on gun control and other politics of personal freedom.
- From Chocolate to Morphine
- “Everything You Need to Know About Mind-Altering Drugs”, Andrew Weil & Winifred Rosen’s high-school level text dealing with recreational and mind-altering drugs is a fascinating and useful book to keep on hand.
- How French Children Learn to Drink
- Barbara Gallatin Anderson argues that the French are thick when it comes to wine, and that people don’t understand that when the government says wine is bad for children, that also includes watered-down wine. More likely, they just don’t trust their government.
- MUSHing the Electronic Frontier
- What is the state of virtual reality on the text-based net?
- What children don’t do, adults don’t know
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What children learn, the adult they become understands better.
More Information
- The Most Precious Resource is Agency
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“Readers (and often biographers) tend to fixate around the celebrity itself, when people became famous or fortunate. But the early lives, long before success, contain something revealing. Before you grasp, you have to reach. How did they learn to reach?”
- The Bus Comes Back at the End of the Day
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“On a completely unrelated note: the bus was 20 minutes late today, so I went out looking to see what had happened. I was pretty sure she had been kidnapped, and I would find her backpack in the bushes down the street. I was also pretty sure this had happened in the morning, and she never got to school, and this was my fault for not standing at the window and watching her go down the hill.”
