[IAEP] Fwd: Tour of Uruguay / Vuelta Ciclista del Uruguay

[Frederick Grose]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Carlos Rabassa <carnen at mac.com> 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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