BABY TALK

Heard this? Researchers discovered that babies cry with the same "prosody" or melody used in their native language by the second day of life. They did this by recording the cries of 60 babies born to French or German parents.

French newborns in the study ended their cries with a lilt at the end typically heard in French. German babies, however, started their cries intensely and dropped off at the end -- much like the emphasis their German parents put in a sentence. Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/newborns-cry-accent-study-finds/story?id=9006266

That's some pretty smart viable tissue mass.

Hey, how are you doing today? Here's a shot Your Yorel took on the way to the bus yesterday. That's the Wasatch Mountains out there that the sun is beginning to break on. Weird cloud formations that day.

OMG MOMENT. Your Yorel doesn't normally watch the news on TV, but it's on right now. A story about how Wall St. is getting H1N1 vaccines before others? Oh, pleeeze. And the local news showed a mother in line to get the shot saying she "doesn't want to die." What a whack-out scare.