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I was myself pregnant while I was doing the research for the book.
Today I want to share with you some of the amazing things that scientists are discovering about what fetuses learn while they're still in their mothers' bellies.
This is how researchers discovered that, after women repeatedly read aloud a section of Dr. Seuss' "The Cat in the Hat" while they were pregnant, their newborn babies recognized that passage when they hear it outside the womb.
French babies cry on a rising note while German babies end on a falling note, imitating the melodic contours of those languages.
In one experiment, a group of pregnant women was asked to drink a lot of carrot juice during their third trimester of pregnancy, while another group of pregnant women drank only water.
Six months later, the women's infants were offered cereal mixed with carrot juice, and their facial expressions were observed while they ate it.
The world they had learned about while in utero was not the same as the world into which they were born.
In other words, the mothers with post-traumatic stress syndrome had passed on a vulnerability to the condition to their children while they were still in utero.
This idea came to me while talking to a physicist friend of mine at MIT.
The most surprising thing that I've learned while running this contest is that some scientists are now working directly with dancers on their research.
Research environments and reporting trips and NGO projects are very intimate environments; you make good friends while you're doing good work.
Well, people power has been there for a while.
While you're typing a CAPTCHA, during those 10 seconds, your brain is doing something amazing.
Nowadays, while you're typing a CAPTCHA, not only are you authenticating yourself as a human, but in addition you're helping us to digitize books.
So now we're taking all of the words that the computer cannot recognize and we're getting people to read them for us while they're typing a CAPTCHA on the Internet.
Since people are creating value while they're learning, they don't have to pay with their money, they pay with their time.
The frame and radii of this web is made up of one type of silk, while the capture spiral is a composite of two different silks: the filament and the sticky droplet.
His fame was built on that in L.A. for a while.
I, like thousands of other homeless youth, disappeared into the shadows of the city while the whole world kept spinning as if nothing at all had gone terribly wrong.
Afrofuturist films like "Pumzi," Wanuri Kahiu's superb sci-fi flick, paint brilliant pictures of Africa's future, while Rungano Nyoni's "I Am Not A Witch" and Akin Omotoso's "Vaya" show us and catalogue our present.
But one version makes it easy to dismiss Africa as hopeless, while the other fuels hope that a billion people can continue to make progress towards prosperity.
For while its external image might be dated, Africa continues to evolve, as does African film.
While I was preparing my dog for the run, a man was finishing drinking at a bar, picked up his car keys, got into a car and headed south, or wherever he was.
And we're at a situation now where for every three baby boomers, the McKinsey Global Institute predicts that two will not be able to meet their pre-retirement needs while they're in retirement.
They're making more money while retired than they were making while they were working.
He's going to retire on 44 percent of what he earned while he was working.
Now while I was writing about this, I came upon a book called "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl.
And he wrote that, while he was in the camp, he could tell, should they ever be released, which of the people would be OK, and which would not.
While I was pondering this question, I came across this urban legend about Ernest Hemingway, who allegedly said that these six words here: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn," were the best novel he had ever written.
Back at work, I handed over the urgent things that needed to be done while I was having more tests to see if my cancer had spread.
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