On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Frederick Grose <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Carlos Rabassa <[email protected]> wrote: > >> English text follows after Spanish >> >> Acabamos de revisar y completar los dos artículos que ofrecimos en >> respuesta a la reciente solicitud de ideas para celebrar la próxima Vuelta >> Ciclista del Uruguay / Tour of Uruguay: >> >> S042 - Entendiendo la Bicicleta >> >> https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1T3GCDPTim8S84WqPq-wYb8Gc_UOzshADn237cm-IHzE >> >> S043 - Entendiendo el Cuerpo del Ciclista >> >> https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=14wg7c71iQkGJs2QrldQ75fS5DZCTjhCLPP4vRgrWFgQ >> >> English text: >> >> We have just completed an updated the two articles we offered in response >> to the recent request for ideas to celebrate the forthcoming Tour of Uruguay >> / Vuelta Ciclista del Uruguay. >> >> E042 - Understanding the Bicycle >> >> https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=19Dug-0DCk2520Fsx0hl-dzZDJp3cWVDWBDL-ik1Js14 >> >> E043 - Understanding the Cyclist’s Body >> >> https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1v7oJJ0KEcmJ5cNpOokoxw0HgbWmu3ZOxX3QXNVpIBRs >> >> Carlos Rabassa >> Voluntario >> Red de Apoyo al Plan Ceibal >> Montevideo, Uruguay >> > > Here is an interesting reverence: > > A 'Perspectives' Psychology, article in SCIENCE (magazine), *Science > Starts Early*, by Frank C. Keil, > http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6020/1022.summary > <http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6020/1022.summary>(full article > requires membership). > The follow-on sentence to the teaser in the summary is, > > "Evidence is mounting, however, that young children are often quite adept > at uncovering statistical and causal patterns and that many foundations of > scientific thought are built impressively early in our lives." > > One example given is about the digestive system: > > "For example, while being completely ignorant about the biological details, > most preschoolers do know that food gets transformed after it enters the > body and that the transformed version is critical for helping the body to > grow and to move [1]." > > The article goes on to discuss > > "...certain broad intuitions and expectations about plausible and > implausible patterns." One relates to an "essentialist bias": the idea that > something you can't see (e.g., "microstructural stuff") causes what you can > see ... and is the essence of the thing being observed." > > that may apply for inferences drawn from patterns of covariance for > biological phenomena but not for physical phenomena. > > [1] K. Inagaki, G. Hatano, *Curr. Dir. Psychol. Sci.* *15*, 177 (2006) > > ************ > > Second comment: > The word 'dirty' has many negative connotations in English and may not be > suitable as applied to the blood leaving the Tissues compartment. Perhaps > 'waste-bearing' and 'purified' blood would match the sophistication of > 'oxygenated'. 'Fresh' air -> 'exhaled' air might also match this level of > sophistication. > > In this context, the diagram might be labeled, 'Material flow diagram of > the human body'. > > ************ > > Thanks for sharing! > > --Fred > http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/ may also be of interest.
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