Pam Tellew

This is cool, Sandra:

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How do people learn naturally about such things, though?
Observation, conversation, comparisons, extrapolating from what you
know already about various things:
architecture: ....
biology: ....
logic: ....
Free-range thinking about such things can come to some interesting
questions which can then be followed to other answers and questions.>>>
And, you know, some of the most interesting academic research I've
seen happens when people do ask questions in this way, instead of
more typical research scholarship. I'm thinking of Katherine
Dettwyler's work on the "Natural Age of Weaning" where she looks at
history, culture, other mammals, teeth, sexual
maturity....http://www.kathydettwyler.org/detwean.html




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Lyla Wolfenstein

hi pam! glad you posted kathy's work. i haven't introduced myself yet, but i will soon. however, i wanted to had james mckenna's site as well - although more academic and research based, so is kathy's work, so i thought it might be relevant.

http://www.nd.edu/~jmckenn1/lab/

it includes articles like "why babies should never sleep alone - a review of the co-sleeping controversy in relation to SIDS, breastfeeding and bedsharing" and "why we never ask 'is it safe for infants to sleep alone" and infant - parent cosleeping - an evolutionary perspective"

lyla

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From: Pam Tellew
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Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:31 PM
Subject: [SPAM][AlwaysLearning] Researching, was Re: co-sleeping--Ask Amy


This is cool, Sandra:

<<<
How do people learn naturally about such things, though?
Observation, conversation, comparisons, extrapolating from what you
know already about various things:
architecture: ....
biology: ....
logic: ....
Free-range thinking about such things can come to some interesting
questions which can then be followed to other answers and questions.>>>
And, you know, some of the most interesting academic research I've
seen happens when people do ask questions in this way, instead of
more typical research scholarship. I'm thinking of Katherine
Dettwyler's work on the "Natural Age of Weaning" where she looks at
history, culture, other mammals, teeth, sexual
maturity....http://www.kathydettwyler.org/detwean.html

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