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(1) May 24, 2007 (2) Looking Language in the Face. (3) Science Now (4) Babies are smarter than we think. If a baby from a monolingual family went to a bilingual family that child would realize that the family were speaking a different language. That is because instead of paying attention to the sounds, they look at the face, and the syllables the jaws make. (5) Whitney Weikum, wanted to see if this was actually true, so she conducted an experiment. She gathered babies at the age 4, 6, or 8 months, 24 from English, and French speaking parents, and 36 from just plain old English speaking parents. They showed the babies a clip in one language, and noted that the babies were soon tired of it, but when they changed the language of the same clip, they saw that the babies had some interest, and noticed that the language was different. This was also true for the bilingual ones. When the 8 month monolingual babies saw the clip, and it changed language, the babies did not notice the change. It seems that they lose their knack for noticing it, but the bilingual babies did not lose it, and still noticed the changes. (6) I think that this was very interesting, and makes me wonder if I was able to do that when I was younger.

(1)May 14, 2007 (2)The benefits of being social. (3)Science Now. (4)Scientist have discovered that social bees have better immune systems than those of the lone bees. They did experiments in the Maquarie University in New South Wales. (5) They took 4 types of bees, 2 of them were loners, and 2 were social. They removed the protective coat that all bees have on them, and applied Staphylococcus aureus (staph) bacterium to their bodies. Through this experiment, they have discovered that that the bees that were very social had antimicrobial armor 314 times stronger that those of the loner bees. "If you are going to look in nature for antibiotics, then this tells you were to look." Adam Stow says (6) I think that this discovery might make us one step closer to killing those bacteria that are resistant to the antibodies.