When a mother compares and contrasts the stench from her baby’s nappies with that from those of someone else’s baby, the question of disgust arises. The question drove a team of psychologists to do an experiment. Richard Stevenson and Trevor Case, of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and Betty Repacholi of the University of Washington in Seattle issued a report […]
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Why babies tip over
On the heels, so to speak of the Ig Nobel Prize-winning study that explains why pregnant women don’t tip over comes another piece of a puzzle. A study by a different group tries to understand why babies do tip over: “A unifying model for timing of walking onset in humans and other mammals,” Garwicz M, […]