The 3-year-old is full of wonder and spends a lot of time watching, observing, and imitating. Their days are filled with busy exploration of their world.Het prentje: via randyrambo.
Three-year-olds are interested in perfecting motor skills, and it is common for them to spend the entire morning going down the slide or riding a favorite tricycle.
Three-year-olds have very little memory for past events and do not understand "yesterday" and "tomorrow" the way adults do. They often repeat activities or may do and undo actions such as putting a puzzle together. These sequences are important to later understandings of change and consistency.
(Bron: National Network for Child Care, Ages & Stages - Three Year-Olds.)
"It was an unforgettable sight. At every other table in the restaurant there sat an single, rich, obviously unpleasant elderly person of one sex or another, eating alone, with a comic paper hat supplied by the management stuck glumly on his or her head, never exchanging a word with those similary placed around them. I saw it as a parable of human selfishness, vowing then and there to marry and have children as soon as reasonably possible."Sympathieke dames van huwbare leeftijd mogen zich overigens altijd melden. Het is weer kerst voor je er erg in hebt.
Auberon Waugh, Will This Do? An Autobiography, Londen, Arrow Books, 1991.
They found, for example, that a labrador retriever shakes his body at a frequency of 4.3Hz while a small huski does it at 5.8Hz. Looking at the frequency difference, they realized that the shaking speed was connected to the radius of the animal's body. Water is attached to the dog by surface tension, they thought, and the sinusoidal shaking creates centripetal forces that ejects that water off the body. Therefore, the larger the dog's body radius (R) is, the stronger these forces are on the dog's skin. This means that smaller furry animals would have to shake faster to achieve necessary forces, which is why a mouse has to shake at 27Hz, while a cat does it at 6Hz. Looking at this data, they found out that the frequency had to be the R^0.75, with the "shake frequencies asymptotically approach 4Hz as animals grow in size."Meer? Hier. Bekijk vooral ook het filmpje.
"De meeuw wordt tegenwoordig nog nauwelijks gegeten. In de Middeleeuwen stond de meeuw echter wel vaak op het menu. Hij werd gekookt en vervolgens gevuld met veel kruiden zoals peper, saffraan en kaneel" , (wikipedia).Het prentje: met dank aan Lou Salomé.
"Mr White:Het prentje: het afgebeelde bureaumeubilair is te koop. Informeren: hier.
If you get that story done, I'll take steps to get you a new cushion for your chair.
H.W. Ross"
"Doe maar, Jaak."Het prentje: via superbomba.
"Eyjafjallajökull. Lluköjallajfajye".
"Indrukwekkend, dames en heren: Jaak Schelstraete uit Buggenhout."
"Tolstoj was al in de zestig toende hij leerde fietsen. Hij kreeg zijn eerste les precies een maand na de dood van de geliefde jongste zoon van Sonja en hem. Zowel de fiets als de fietsles was een cadeau van de Moskouse Vereniging van Vélocipèdeliefhebbers. We kunnen slechts raden hoe Sonja zich gevoeld zal hebben toen ze in haar rouw haar echtgenoot over de tuinpaden zag slingeren. 'Tolstoj heeft leren fietsen' noteert Tolstoj's secretaris Tsjertkov in die tijd. 'Is dat niet in strijd met de christelijke idealen?'"Het prentje: Tolstoj, Ilya Yefimovich Repin (1844–1930), 1901.
Uit: Elif Batuman, De Bezetenen. Avonturen met Russische literatuur en haar lezers, Atlas, Amsterdam, 2010.
"I was thinking this morning, a caveman wakes up one day and has an idea, and there's a butcher shop, and then time goes by and you get grocery stores and so on. The first butcher shop: some guy invented it."Het prentje: via dose daily's photostream.
Millard Drexler, C.E.O. van J. Crew Group, Inc., geciteerd in The New Yorker, 20.09.2010.
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