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Giving unique names to children’s toys helps infants distinguish between different objects 

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Giving names to children’s toys does help infants with their recognition skills early in life, a new study shows.  One-year-olds successfully recognised cuddly toys from earlier if they’d already been told them their names, experiments in the US show.  This compared with other one-year-olds in the experiments who had seen the toys before, but hadn’t … Read more

Attacks by radicalised mentally ill people can be ‘impossible to distinguish’ from acts of terrorism

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Recent violent attacks by radicalised mentally ill people are ‘impossible to distinguish’ from terrorism, a new report has warned. The European police agency Europol said that incidents carried out by mentally ill people who have been influenced by hate speech and fake news could be classed as terrorism in its European Union Terrorism Situation and … Read more