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'Once upon a time there was a congress...'

Corresponding author: Prof. Michael John Vita-Salute San Raffaele University Via Olgettina 48 20132 Milano, Italy e.mail: [email protected] conclude immediately‘, spoken by the irritated moderator. Of course, he could have rehearsed the presentation beforehand to get his timing right. He hadn’t thought of that. He could also have numbered his slides in order to know where he was in the presen...

Once upon a time there was complex numerical estimation

During the last decade, evidence collected in cognitive, developmental, and comparative research showed that adults prevented from verbal counting, along with infants and non-human animals possess numerical systems that are independent of language (the so-called “non-verbal numerical abilities”). Interestingly very similar results were reported among mammals, birds, and fish, leading some autho...

Once upon a time . . .

Telling stories to help relieve a woman in labor may be soothing, but one must be sure to choose the right tale.

Once upon a time.

A: It came about I was teaching my first year out of college in Portland, Oregon in 1952 in a school that I hated. The district was lower middle class, going downhill fast. There were thirty five kids in the classroom and I decided by mid-year that if I finished the year in one piece, I was not going to go back there. I could not transfer to another school in the system. The main office told me...