Your partner’s ghost

I read that when your spouse dies, you are more likely than not (60% if I remember correctly) to believe that you still see them from time to time. The standard explanation is that your brain is so conditioned to see your partner that it continues to see your partner after he/she is gone. What do you think? Do you believe this answer? (Could we come up with an experiment to test this?) Is there anything else going on here?

Reduplication is the first marker of language

Watching my children acquire language, I have observed that reduplication is the first marker of language development. Before a baby’s really trying to speak, he babbles single syllables (“Bah”). When he first starts attempting words, he reduplicates (“BaBa”). At some point, single syllable words also become significant, but I believe this happens later in the process.

Thoughts?

Make a WCF Service Reference testable

I came up with a trick (doubtless invented by lots of others as well) to make WCF Service References more easily testable. Since the service reference is a partial class, you can simply add another file that injects an interface.

public interface IMyService
{
    void MyMethod();
}

public partial class MyServiceReference : IMyService
{
}