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For most adults, adding small numbers requires little effort, but for some children, it can take all ten fingers and a lot of time.
Research published online on 17 August 2014 in Nature Neuroscience suggests that changes in the hippocampus — a brain area associated with memory formation — could help to explain how children eventually pick up efficient strategies for mathematics, and why some children learn more quickly than others. Continue reading “Developing brains switch maths strategies”
And activates hemispheres Playstations cannot reach, says Tim Radford
Forget Lara Croft. Think long division. Mental arithmetic bulks up brain muscle far more than any quick-fingered exercise on a PlayStation, according to a Japanese professor. The conclusion: thinking maths takes the brain to places no other activity can reach. Continue reading “Maths builds brain muscles”
St. Melangell the Abbess of Wales (†641) – Commemorated May 27 / January 31
“The Church in The British Isles will only begin to grow when she begins to venerate her own Saints” -Saint Arsenios of Paros (†1877) Continue reading ““The ancient Christian Church – About Orthodox Church in the West World” – Saint Melangell the Abbess of Wales”
by James Read
Despite the universality of the Holy Orthodox Church, it is not infrequently that converts confess to feeling “out of place” in the Russian, Greek, Serbian, or other ethnic tradition which, with few exceptions, dominates parish life in the Orthodox West. Continue reading ““The ancient Christian Church – About Orthodox Church in the West World” – The rich unknown heritage of Western Saints”
Saint Patrick (Latin: Patricius, Irish: Naomh Pádraig) was a Celtic Briton and Christian missionary, who is the most generally recognised patron saint of Ireland (although Brigid of Kildare and Columba are also formally patron saints).was a Romano-Briton by birth. He was probably born in 390 on what is now the north-west coast of England at an unidentified place called Bannavem Taburniae. The son of a town councillor, his grandfather had been a priest. Bearing the Roman name ‘Patricius’, meaning ‘noble’, he was brought up to speak Latin but paid no attention to the teachings of Christianity. Continue reading ““The ancient Christian Church – About Orthodox Church in the West World” – St. Patrick”
According to Christian tradition, the Seven Apostolic Men (siete varones apostólicos) were seven Christian clerics ordained in Rome by Saints Peter and Paul and sent to evangelize Spain. This group includes Torquatus, Caecilius, Ctesiphon, Euphrasius, Indaletius, Hesychius, and Secundius (Torcuato, Cecilio, Tesifonte, Eufrasio, Indalecio Hesiquio y Segundo). Continue reading ““The ancient Christian Church – About Orthodox Church in the West World” – The Seven Apostolic Men, missionaries in Spain”
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