Any time a new illness warning hits the news, the next thing that happens is that prices rise on anything directly related to that illness. The Avian Influenza also known as the Bird Flu, or in short H5N2, is the newest health scare on the rise these days. Today, the latest and greatest is the […]
From toddler puzzles to more sophisticated graphs in middle school, people in Western cultures learn to put numbers in order from left to right, much like they learn to read. However, Arabic readers, who read from right to left, organize lower numbers on the right. So, it would seem that associating numbers on a mental […]
New studies show that young chicks learn spatial dimensions – left and right – just like humans. Typically, when people think about numbers, they envision numbers in ascending order from left to right, or lower numbers on the left and the higher values on the right. This characteristic is known as a mental number line. […]