<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Carlos Rabassa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carnen@mac.com" target="_blank">carnen@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18px"><div><font color="#FF1314">English text follows after Spanish</font></div><div><br></div>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:</span></font><div>
<font size="5"><span style="font-size:18px"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-size:medium;line-height:27px"><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18px">S042 - Entendiendo la Bicicleta</span></font></span><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18px"><br>
</span></font><div><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18px"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1T3GCDPTim8S84WqPq-wYb8Gc_UOzshADn237cm-IHzE" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1T3GCDPTim8S84WqPq-wYb8Gc_UOzshADn237cm-IHzE</a></span></font></div>
</span></font><div><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18px"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="line-height:27px"><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18px">S043 - Entendiendo el Cuerpo del Ciclista</span></font></span></div>
<div><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18px"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=14wg7c71iQkGJs2QrldQ75fS5DZCTjhCLPP4vRgrWFgQ" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=14wg7c71iQkGJs2QrldQ75fS5DZCTjhCLPP4vRgrWFgQ</a></span></font></div>
<div><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18px"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="color:rgb(255, 19, 20)">English text:</span></span></font></div><div><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18px"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font size="5"><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18px">We have just completed</span></font><span style="font-size:18px"> 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.</span></font></div>
<div><span style="line-height:27px"><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18px"><br></span></font></span></div><div><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18px"></span></font><span style="line-height:27px"><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18px">E042 - Understanding the Bicycle</span></font></span></div>
<div><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18px;line-height:27px"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=19Dug-0DCk2520Fsx0hl-dzZDJp3cWVDWBDL-ik1Js14" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=19Dug-0DCk2520Fsx0hl-dzZDJp3cWVDWBDL-ik1Js14</a></span></font></div>
<div><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18px;line-height:27px"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="line-height:27px"><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18px">E043 - Understanding the Cyclist’s Body</span></font></span></div>
<div><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18px;line-height:27px"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1v7oJJ0KEcmJ5cNpOokoxw0HgbWmu3ZOxX3QXNVpIBRs" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1v7oJJ0KEcmJ5cNpOokoxw0HgbWmu3ZOxX3QXNVpIBRs</a></span></font></div>
<div><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18px;line-height:27px"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18px;line-height:27px"><div style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium">Carlos Rabassa</div>
<div style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium">Voluntario</div><div style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium">Red de Apoyo al Plan Ceibal</div><div style="line-height:normal;font-size:medium">Montevideo, Uruguay</div>
</span></font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Here is an interesting reverence:</div><div><br></div><div>A 'Perspectives' Psychology, article in SCIENCE (magazine), <b>Science Starts Early</b>, by Frank C. Keil,</div>
<div><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6020/1022.summary" target="_blank">http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6020/1022.summary</a></div><div><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6020/1022.summary" target="_blank"></a>(full article requires membership).</div>
<div>The follow-on sentence to the teaser in the summary is,</div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote">"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."</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></blockquote>One example given is about the digestive system:<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>"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]."</div>
<div><br></div></blockquote>The article goes on to discuss<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>"...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."</div>
</blockquote>that may apply for inferences drawn from patterns of covariance for biological phenomena but not for physical phenomena.<div><br></div><div>[1] K. Inagaki, G. Hatano, <i>Curr. Dir. Psychol. Sci.</i> <b>15</b>, 177 (2006)<br>
<div><div><br></div></div></div><div>************</div><div><br></div><div>Second comment:</div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In this context, the diagram might be labeled, 'Material flow diagram of the human body'.</div><div><br></div><div>************</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for sharing!</div><div><br></div>
<div> --Fred</div><div><br></div>