How A Toddler Learns To Talk?

A massive data-collection effort reveals patterns in the ways that children learn language.

The MIT Media Lab's Human Speechome Project has collected more than 80,000 hours of video and 120,000 hours of audio recordings documenting the first two years of a child's life. The result is a massive database of parent-child interactions, illustrated in this graphic. Click on any word below to see when the child learned it and how often the child and his parents used it.

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Nutritional Tricks for the Developing World

Proper diet and nutrition are key to children's well-being, keeping them healthy and supporting cognitive development. A diet without nutrients like iron or folic acid can have serious effects. But in the developing world, the correct nutrients aren't always in children's diets. Adding those nutrients to the available food—even to foods in which they don't naturally occur—can be a huge boost to public health. It's a lesson we learned in the United States long ago, and one we need to apply to the rest of the world.

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