News tagged with greek speakers
Scientists show that language shapes perception
(PhysOrg.com) -- Advances in cognitive neuroscience (the science of how the brain works when we think) have shown that what our eyes see and what our brain interprets are two different things. Professor Guillaume Thierry, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 26, 2009 |
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Great speeches: How to know one if we hear one
With the season for political oratory hard upon us, how does the rhetoric of this year's crop of presidential contenders measure up?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 12, 2011 |
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Icelanders hand in draft of world's first 'web' constitution
A group of 25 ordinary citizens on Friday presented to Iceland's parliamentary speaker a new constitution draft, which they compiled with the help of hundreds of others who chipped in online.
Jul 29, 2011 |
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Bilinguals get the blues
(PhysOrg.com) -- Learning a foreign language literally changes the way we see the world, according to new research.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 15, 2011 |
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Can Huffington transform AOL like she has herself?
(AP) -- AOL can only hope that Arianna Huffington proves to be as adept at engineering corporate transformations as she has been at personal ones.
Feb 08, 2011 |
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Mosaics provide missing pieces to popular ancient plays
At the Jan. 6-9 meeting of the American Philological Association, Classics Professor Kathryn Gutzwiller will present her research on recently discovered mosaics depicting lost scenes from four Greek plays ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 04, 2011 |
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Endangered language opens window on to past (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- An endangered Greek dialect which is spoken in north-eastern Turkey has been identified by researchers as a "linguistic goldmine" because of its startling closeness to previous forms ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 04, 2011 |
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Endangered languages database launched online
An open database of endangered languages has been launched by researchers in the hope of creating a free, online portal that will give people access to the world’s disappearing spoken traditions.
Dec 09, 2010 |
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E-mail's lowly 'at' so much more around the world
(AP) -- The squiggly little "at" symbol that makes our e-mail go is more colorful in translation.
Nov 17, 2010 |
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Children use space to think about time
Space and time are intertwined in our thoughts, as they are in the physical world. For centuries, philosophers have debated exactly how these dimensions are related in the human mind. According to a paper to appear in the ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 31, 2010 |
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The Athenians: Another warning from history?
(PhysOrg.com) -- The collapse of Greek democracy 2,400 years ago occurred in circumstances so similar to our own it could be read as a dark and often ignored lesson from the past, a new study suggests. ...
Oct 05, 2009 |
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