This week on the pod we talk about raising our kids to be bilingual, the start of Major League Baseball, and the Apple/FoxConn/This American Life debacle.
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Saren’s Show Notes
New York Times, “Why Bilinguals are Smarter“.
From MomisBest.com: “Bilingual Children are Better at Multi-tasking”
From NPR: “Speaking Multiple Languages May Help Delay Dementia Symptoms“.
From TED Talks: Patricia Kuhl: The Linguistic Genius of Babies
From AKA.me: Advice on Raising Bilingual Kids
Corrections:
1. Lakers coach Mike Brown did start his career as a Video Coordinator with the Denver Nuggets in 1992, but Tom Thibodeau was never a VC. Sorry Tom.
2. Cincinnati is the smallest TV market in the Major Leagues, 38th nationally. Here is the Nielsen rankings (PDF).
Joe’s Show Notes
What is Bucket (computing)?
Jamie Moyer career stats.
Apple/FonConn
This American Life: Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory.
This American Life: Retraction.
From ABC: Apple/FoxConn Nightline Report.
From Freakonomics: (FoxConn) Replacing 500,000 workers with robots over the next three years.
From Reuters: Apple, Foxconn set new standard for Chinese workers
‘Mike Daisey Buster’, Rob Schmitz, Shows How iPads Are Really Made:
Shout Outs
Red Sox call up: Che Hsuan-Lin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-MM3GfPrcU
Apr 20, 2012 @ 11:51:48
Here is a good article about how one man developed a system for learning languages that allowed him to learn four European languages in just a couple of years (from LifeHacker): I Learned to Speak Four Languages in a Few Years: Here’s How.