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Sunday, January 01, 2012

NPR Most E-mailed stories: Singing Therapy Helps Stroke Patients Speak Again and others

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Laurel Fontaine, 16, (left) and her twin sister Heather. When Laurel was 11 years old, she suffered a stroke that destroyed 80 percent of the left side of her brain. The singing therapy helped her regain the ability to speak.
SHOTS - HEALTH BLOG
"Singing therapy" is one treatment researchers are using to help brain trauma patients gain the ability to speak again.
FOOD
Alex Schmidt's grandparents say that the best Jewish food they've ever eaten came from Mexico. They remember a legendary husband-and-wife catering team who made downtown Mexico City feel like the shtetlsof Eastern Europe. Schmidt visits her grandmother to find out more about fusing two culinary traditions.
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RESEARCH NEWS
Some 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci noted that branches on trees split with mathematical precision. Recently, physicists studying this phenomenon have discovered it has important implications for the way wind flows around and through trees.

THE TWO-WAY
Go ahead. Try not to feel all warm and fuzzy after you watch a video or two of the month-old polar bear who is quickly becoming an Internet hit. He's at a zoo in Denmark.

ASIA
It's an old cliche — the boozy customer at the pub, pouring out his woes to the bartender. But at a Tokyo bar run by Buddhist monks, bartenders don't mind hearing their customers' problems — dispensing advice is precisely why they're in business.

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