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• I don’t know exactly why, but I can give you a little more information about the phenomenon. The tone of voice adults use when talking to babies is formally known as IDT, for Infant-Directed Talk. Informally, it’s known ...
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• @itscomplicated: What do you think are the implications of your statement “if you want someone to change, you cut off relationship until they change”? Here’s my assumption: If your son and daughter-in-law are unhappy with you excluding her ...
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• This effect is caused by the passage of the sunlight through the atmosphere. Because we live on a (rough) sphere, and the atmosphere is another sphere above that, when the sun or moon is at the horizon the ...
  November 8th, 2009 Great Answer (10 ) Answer to Why do the sun and moon change colors at different ...