Month: September 2019

Yoga for CrossFit Athletes

CrossFit can be intense, to say the least, so a healthy, moving body is top priority. Treat it right between WODs with these yoga poses from Team Bodybuilding.com athlete and yoga instructor Karla Tafra! Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute for the Future […]

Published on September 30, 2019

Your energy-efficient washing machine could be harboring pathogens

For the first time ever, investigators have identified a washing machine as a reservoir of multidrug-resistant pathogens. The pathogens, a single clone of Klebsiella oxytoca, were transmitted repeatedly to newborns in a neonatal intensive care unit at a children’s hospital. The transmission was stopped only when the washing machine was removed from the hospital. Read […]

Published on September 29, 2019

Children’s (and Adults’) Production Adjustments to Generic and Particular Listener Needs

Abstract Adults design utterances to match listeners’ informational needs by making both “generic” adjustments (e.g., mentioning atypical more often than typical information) and “particular” adjustments tailored to their specific interlocutor (e.g., including things that their addressee cannot see). For children, however, relevant evidence is mixed. Three experiments investigated how generic and particular factors affect children’s […]

Published on September 28, 2019